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- From: ckaiser@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Po-Ching Lives!)
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- Subject: Re: Can BBR start from a 1581?
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 04:27:47 GMT
- Organization: University of California, San Diego
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- In <4fdm8a$8p6@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> galvarez@cs.ucsd.edu (Guillermo Alvarez) writes:
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- >The Big Blue Reader doesn't boot from a 1541 drive, because they're
- >probably using some wacky accelerator routines.
-
- No, not actually. BBR expects to be using a 1571, because only a
- 1571 (or 1581, probable-mont) can r/w in MFM formats. The 1541 and
- derivatives only r/w GCR.
-
- >It definitely loads from a 1571, but can I boot it from a 1581?
- >If so, how do you create the 3.5" disk containing the BBR - just a
- >file-by-file copy?
-
- If you have a nibbler, try that, but file-by-file should be fine.
- I assume this is an attempt to solve the convert-D64-to-disk problem
- without the LPT cable.
-
- Cameron Kaiser
- ckaiser@ucsd.edu
- visit the CWI home page at http://www.armory.com/~spectre/cwi.html
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