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From: sacko@ihuxm.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Interfacing 8" Disks
Message-ID: <560@ihuxm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Sep-83 09:05:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihuxm.560
Posted: Mon Sep 19 09:05:14 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 20-Sep-83 22:28:19 EDT
Organization: BTL Naperville, Il.
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Does anyone know how to interface an 8" diskette drive to the  IBM
diskette  drive  adapter's  external connector on the back of the
PC?  The proper signals appear to be present  on  this  connector
for  interfacing  an  8"  drive,  and the NEC PD765 is capable of
handling such drives.   I  would  like  to  know  if  anyone  has
interfaced  an  8"  drive  in  this  manner  and  if there is any
software available for controlling  the  drive  once  interfaced.
Since  I  want  to  be  able  to  read  8"  diskettes which use a
different directory scheme than the PC, I  need  to  be  able  to
specify  the  sector and track to be read.  The diskettes will be
formatted so I do not need software to format the  8"  diskettes.
In  addition,  I  would  be  interested  in  any  other  ways  of
interfacing 8" drives to the PC.