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Re: 3" disks for 8566A/B, 8568A/B on HP 9000 Series 200 Computers - Any interest in images?


 

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Your PC must support 256 and 512 byte sectors and the number of sectors per track used by LIF formats to successfully read/write disks. “Super IO” chips that implement PS2 keyboard/mouse, IDE, a parallel and one or two serial ports plus a floppy interfaces should have no problem(usually 80486 and earlier Pentium). Somewhat newer systems that had the parallel port and floppy, serial/parallel/keyboard via the LPC interface also usually have no trouble(late 486 or earlier Pentium to later pentium maybe P2/P3 typically). Anything Pentium 4, core, core2 and newer you’re probably going to be out of luck. There might be some exceptions, like certain servers that had an LPC interface for a parallel port (for license dongles) that also happen to retain a floppy interface.

In principle, a USB device could support non DOS formats but most likely do not. There are some specialized hardware out there .. flux something or another intended to read raw media that could do the job via USB.

Something like an old D630, or more generally D600 to D630 and D800 to D830 that can have a floppy, CD-R, DVD or battery in a hot swap bay that’ll do it as well.

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