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Our forum member **Caius** has yet again shared very valuable information for X68000 Compact owners. | Our forum member **Caius** has yet again shared very valuable information for X68000 Compact owners. | ||
- | First of all you will need a 3mode floppy drive and it is recommended to use USB models. Sony Vaio PCGA-UFD5 floppy drive was used for this test. It is very cheap and can be purchased from here: | + | Primarily in Japan there are 3,5" floppy drives that support 3 modes of disk formats - 1.44MB, 1.25MB and 720kB. Hence the name " |
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**Here is a list of some USB floppy drives with 3mode support:** | **Here is a list of some USB floppy drives with 3mode support:** | ||
+ | * [[http:// | ||
+ | *IBM FD-05PUB (Teac OEM) - mode3 could be absent for models manufactured after 2005 | ||
+ | *Micropac technologies SBT-UFDB | ||
+ | * [[http:// | ||
+ | *Sabrent SBT-UFDB | ||
*Sony Vaio PCGA-UFD5 | *Sony Vaio PCGA-UFD5 | ||
+ | * [[http:// | ||
*Toshiba PA3109U-1FDD | *Toshiba PA3109U-1FDD | ||
*Panasonic CF-VFDU03 | *Panasonic CF-VFDU03 | ||
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+ | **Here is a list of internal slim floppy drives with 3mode support: | ||
+ | *Mitsumi D353F3 | ||
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a: is the letter assignment to the floppy drive. It can change to b: or other, depending on your hardware configuration. | a: is the letter assignment to the floppy drive. It can change to b: or other, depending on your hardware configuration. | ||
- | After you have formated the 3.5 floppy disk, you can write back the disk images | + | If you can't format a 3,5 floppy disk at 1.2 MB with these DOS commands, try this trick. First format |
- | http://www.wupload.com/file/2603990827/ | + | After you have formated the 3.5 floppy disk, you can write back disk images using DiskImage 1.3b Utility: |
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+ | [[http://nfggames.com/X68000/PC_Tools/ | ||
**These are the correct settings:** | **These are the correct settings:** | ||
- | * FD mode option should be " | + | * FD mode option should be " |
* If you are using Windows Vista/7, use Windows XP mode for compatibility mode | * If you are using Windows Vista/7, use Windows XP mode for compatibility mode | ||
+ | Keep the scene Alive! |
x68000/writing_3.5_floppies.txt · Last modified: 2022/04/25 16:19 by TD-Linux