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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
- Subject: Re: Floppy disks on Tower XP reading IBM format
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- Date: 15 Nov 1992 15:06:41 GMT
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- In article <1e104nINNk01@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ar961@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Duane Kaufman) writes:
- >I have an NCR Tower XP and it has a program called pcdsk which allows the
- >reading of MS-DOS formatted 5-1/4" floppy disks. I have read the (scanty)
- >man page on the process, but I can get the program to only work with 360K
- >formats, even though the drive can store much more when formatted under UNIX.
-
- The problem is that, while the disk drive and controller support 80 tracks,
- they only support the data rate used on the 360K disks. The 1.2 meg disks use
- ahigher data rate. It should be possible to hook up a 3-1/2 inch disk drive to
- the controller and use 720K floppies (with a suitably modiied pcdsk, which
- isn't too likely to happen, or mtools, another suite of DOS disk utilities),
- but the high density stuff is out of reach.
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