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Re: Test Set Program Development Tool DEV_PL on 3.5" floppy

 

On 2/13/25 14:51, Dave Daniel via groups.io wrote:
1. One can purchase USB-connected 3.5" floppy disk drives; if any of your XP boxes have USB ports, this is an option.
No, this is NOT an option. A USB-connected floppy drive does not allow register-level access to the floppy controller; in fact the required registers aren't even present. Such access is generally required to read or write floppy disks in other than "PC standard" format, which these are not.

-Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
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