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Hi all! I recently acquired an AT&T 3B2/300, and it's going to be a journey to bring this old beast of a unix machine up to running condition. Part of that is going to be reinstalling Unix. The issue is that I don't have a 5.25" drive to image the disks with.
What I'm thinking is shoving a working TEAC FD-55F into my Windows 2000 era machine; however that drive has a flat edge connector instead of the 34 pin connector 3.25" floppy drives use. I'm probably overthinking this; but would it work if I used an edge connector to 34 pin conversion ribbon cable, plugged directly into the motherboard?
Also; the disk images are double sided, 80 track, 90 tpi DS DD, 250kbps MFM encoding, 9 sectors per track with 3:1 interleaving. 720k images. Would the TEAC FD-55F drive be able to image the disks according to this formatting, with the right Linux DD command?
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