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- | ===== Correct procedure for writing | + | ===== Writing |
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. It is recommended to use USB models. Sony Vaio PCGA-UFD5 floppy drive was used for this test and it is very cheap. It 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 | ||
- | *IBM FD-05PUB (Teac OEM) - mode3 could be absent for models manufactured after 2005 but this information is not confimed. | ||
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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' | ||
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* 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 | ||
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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 | ||
+ | ==== Writing on Linux ==== | ||
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+ | You can do a low-level format of the floppy into 1.2MB mode with ufiformat: | ||
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+ | * ufiformat -f 1232 /dev/sdb | ||
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+ | After that, disk images can be written as normal. XDF files are bare images, so you can write them with e.g. dd: | ||
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+ | * dd if=flop.xdf of=/dev/sdb | ||
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+ | ===== Writing disk images to 3.5" floppies with Greaseweazle / Fluxengine ===== | ||
+ | 3.5" floppies can also be written with USB flux imaging hardware. See [[writing_floppies]] for details. |
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