The drive worked when I dumped a couple of RX02 disks. Is that an indication that the drive works?
I'll try to find some other 8" floppies to the ABC800 this weekend, I also have another drive to test with. I don't have any 8" alignment disks.
Does the Kryoflux support Abc80/800 disks?.
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Re: Does the Kryoflux support Abc80/800 disks?.
Not necessarily, as the DOS may not care about being on the correct track.
Re: Does the Kryoflux support Abc80/800 disks?.
I know this is old, but then so is the subject matter. I managed to read a number of floppies written on a Facit DTC system, which was identical to an ABC800.
I read them as MFM with 256 bytes sectors, and then I deinterleaved them with a block size of 4096 and concatenated the slices. Then I wrote a simple program that could extract the files. Apparently the filesystems varied a bit between versions, but it's a start. It doesn't handle continuation blocks and it doesn't parse the initial metadata block, but if anyone can come up with more documentation, I can easily add that.
https://github.com/hansliss/facitlist
https://github.com/hansliss/deinterleave
I read them as MFM with 256 bytes sectors, and then I deinterleaved them with a block size of 4096 and concatenated the slices. Then I wrote a simple program that could extract the files. Apparently the filesystems varied a bit between versions, but it's a start. It doesn't handle continuation blocks and it doesn't parse the initial metadata block, but if anyone can come up with more documentation, I can easily add that.
https://github.com/hansliss/facitlist
https://github.com/hansliss/deinterleave
Re: Does the Kryoflux support Abc80/800 disks?.
Nice, thanks for adding this!