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5.25 floppy rpm adjustment
Name: chemistryguy Date: March 1, 2009 at 04:37:20 Pacific OS: Windows ME CPU/Ram: Intel Duo Core 3.0 GHz/ 8GB ram Product: Teac / Fd-55gfr 149-u Subcategory: General
Comment:
I'm wondering if anyone knows of a program that will display the speed of a floppy drive as it's running. I need to knock down the speed of a Teac FD-55GFR 149-U from 300 to 288 in order to read some old disks formatted with an Atari1050.
Name: SkipCox Date: March 1, 2009 at 10:53:35 Pacific
Reply:
About 15 years ago, I used a program called TestDrive from Microsystems Development. Sure don't know where to get it now though.
On a whim, I called a friend who grew up working on this old stuff. He recalled a couple more programs:
Readiscope by Dysan and Disk Drive Analyzer by Verbatim.
I wonder if a drive will adjust that much? That would be 4% out of spec...never seen one that far out.
Skip
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Response Number 2
Name: pyrolitic Date: March 1, 2009 at 11:49:12 Pacific
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The DOS utilities available in FDFORMAT claim to be able to format Atari ST disk, it would seem logical that they can read them. Here is a link to an archive which has FDFORMAT: http://sac-ftp.externet.hu/utildisk... This is pure DOS stuff, there is a DOS TSR you load which allows the computer to read and write "non-DOS" formats, it probably won't work right under ME. There are also a lot of other utlities available on the same archive which might help you out, FDFORMAT is the only one I have personal experience with and it is free to use, not shareware or a demo (which many of the utilities on the site are).
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