Re: Catweasel vs. dd drive

From: Hársfalvi Levente (levente_at_terrasoft.hu)
Date: 2003-10-07 09:22:04

Spiro Trikaliotis írta:

> I suspect the Catweasel will only work reliably with DD drives, not with HD
> drives. So, if any of your drives can work with 1.2 MB capacity on a 5,25"
> disc, I suspect it will not work reliably with the Catweasel. You will most
> probably need a so-called 360 KB drive (although it was able to write even
> 720 KB on one disc).

The 1541's higher bitspeed may be a problem for this kind of drives, though. 
Some will detect and drop the short data pulses (since they "know", that 
they should receive <250kbps streams).


L.



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