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- | ===== Correct procedure for writing | + | ===== Writing |
- | Our forum member Caius has yet again shared | + | Our forum member |
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+ | 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 " | ||
http:// | http:// | ||
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+ | **Here is a list of some USB floppy drives with 3mode support:** | ||
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+ | * [[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 | ||
+ | * [[http:// | ||
+ | *Toshiba PA3109U-1FDD | ||
+ | *Panasonic CF-VFDU03 | ||
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+ | **Here is a list of internal slim floppy drives with 3mode support:** | ||
+ | *Mitsumi D353F3 (Requires JM215A adapter for connecting to a regular PC) | ||
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+ | ==== Writing on DOS / Windows ==== | ||
Sadly Omniflop doesn' | Sadly Omniflop doesn' | ||
- | format a: /a:1024 /t:77 /n:8 /u | + | * format a: /a:1024 /t:77 /n:8 /u |
- | or this one if previous doesn' | + | or this one if the previous doesn' |
- | format a: /fs:fat /v: /a:1024 /t:77 /n:8 /y | + | * format a: /fs:fat /v: /a:1024 /t:77 /n:8 /y |
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 formatted | + | If you can't format a 3,5 floppy disk at 1.2 MB with these DOS commands, try this trick. First format the disk at 1.44 MB (using Windows utility) and then format it at 1.2 MB with the DOS command. Sometimes it can help. |
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+ | After you have formated | ||
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+ | [[http:// | ||
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+ | **These are the correct settings: | ||
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+ | * FD mode option should be " | ||
+ | * If you are using Windows Vista/7, use Windows XP mode for compatibility mode | ||
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+ | ==== Writing on Linux ==== | ||
- | http:// | + | You can do a low-level format of the floppy into 1.2MB mode with ufiformat: |
- | These are the correct settings: | + | * ufiformat -f 1232 /dev/sdb |
- | * FD mode option should | + | After that, disk images can be written as normal. XDF files are bare images, so you can write them with e.g. dd: |
- | * If you are using Windows Vista/7, use Windows XP mode for compatibility | + | |
- | Anyway, n8bit if you have trouble feel free to ask me. | + | * dd if=flop.xdf of=/dev/sdb |
- | P.S. | + | ===== Writing disk images to 3.5" floppies |
- | Eidis, when I have a bit of spare time I want to do a Wiki article about the X68000 CompactXVI CF mod I made, are you agree? | + | |
- | Other USB floppy drives | + | |
- | -Toshiba | + | 3.5" floppies can also be written with USB flux imaging hardware. See [[writing_floppies]] for details. |
- | -Panasonic model CF-VFDU03 | + | |
- | -IBM FD-05PUB(Teac OEM) - maybe not the models manifactured after 2005 but this information is not confimed- | + |
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