FM-77AV40SX Support

Jeff · **Posted:** Mon Apr 09, 2012 8:00 am

TheRogue wrote:

Hey guys! Have you had a chance to look at this yet? Are the images that I gave you good or do you need different ones?

THe original disk drive is a 300 RPM or a 360 RPM drive ?

TheRogue · **Joined:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:28 am **Posts:** 14

The original drive is 300 RPM. You can write floppies no problem for it with a standard non 3-mode PC floppy drive.

Jeff · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:20 pm

TheRogue wrote:

The original drive is 300 RPM. You can write floppies no problem for it with a standard non 3-mode PC floppy drive.

There are something wrong :
1942.D77 ,Albatross #001 (Disk 1).D77 and Alpha.D77 seems to be double sided/40 tracks floppy images. This is ok for a 5"1/4 disk, but not very compatible for a 3"1/2 disk drive....
am i missing something ?

TheRogue · **Joined:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:28 am **Posts:** 14

No you are not missing anything. The FM-7 line originally used 5-1/4" drives, but moved to 3-1/2" drives later on. These images were originally for 5-1/4" disks but can be written to 3-1/2" disks using the utility DITT. I have written them to 3-1/2" disks successfully many times. Hope this helps.

Jeff · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2012 11:25 am

TheRogue wrote:

No you are not missing anything. The FM-7 line originally used 5-1/4" drives, but moved to 3-1/2" drives later on. These images were originally for 5-1/4" disks but can be written to 3-1/2" disks using the utility DITT. I have written them to 3-1/2" disks successfully many times. Hope this helps.

So there are 40 track used over 80 used on 3-1/2" disks ? there are no double step used with 3-1/2" disks ?

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