On Jun 17, 2011, at 12:52 PM, hartonj wrote:
If a normal PC floppy drive is physically capable of writing 800k
disks, which I can't say, I would assume that given good image files
you could use rawwrite (http://www.chrysocome.net/rawwrite) to write
the image to the disk. As far as I know, it does something akin to
unix's dd and doesn't care about format, it just writes raw data to
the floppy.
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Going from MEMORY (Always subject to adjustment/ correction] the drive
mechanisms are different. The 'pc' drives rotate at a constant speed.
While Apple, used a 'much more technically advanced method' Rotational
speed vaaried depending ov which track was being accessed. [ducks
for cover]
Chuck
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