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The Greaseweazle device discussed in the article appears to be a specially-designed floppy controller that is low-level enough to read arbitrarily formatted dis
by csande17 3y ago
The Greaseweazle device discussed in the article appears to be a specially-designed floppy controller that is low-level enough to read arbitrarily formatted disks.
- YZF 3y agoIIRC Macs disks had different density for different sectors. The sectors on the outside had more data than sectors on the inside. I'm surprised a PC disk drive can read those, I'd have expected that to be impossible. I certainly have never heard of anyone doing that while PCs and Macs with floppy disks were around. EDIT: ok. it seems like this specific device is flexible enough. cool.
- actionfromafar 3y agoBack in the day, Amiga could read Amiga floppies (of course), PC floppies and Mac floppies, using standard floppy drives.
- 77pt77 3y agoRead and write. Again, I think it was just the controller delegated some signal processing to the rest of the hardware.