When you don't have a 3d printer and you need a quick case for your GreaseWeazle, here you go. You can re-purpose an old wireless mouse box. The floppy disk ribbon cable goes in the front...
The USB C connector plugs in the back...
Close it up and it looks like this...
All plugged into one of my backup PCs.
Using the GW GUI... makes it easier. Seen here copying AtariWriter Plus.
I really have nothing better to do... 😎
Freshly printed Case for the Grease Weazle V4.1
Do you want the case ? I have the code for a 3D printed mini case
Started writing an Enhanced Density (ED) cfg file... it doesn't work yet. I could not find any ED disks in my collection so I had to create one. ED is a density that I have never used much as I installed US Doublers or Happys in all of my 1050s back in the day and mostly used DD for all of my stuff...
All of the verification tests I have been running for this process are done on a Happy 1050.
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5 for 5 = 100% success on 5.25" on the Teac
Last night... I figured it out. I am now able to read Atari 8-bit floppies on the GW system to SCP images and write the SCP images back to floppies using the GW write functions.
It works!!!
I did 2 different SSSD disks and one SSDD disk using the CFG entry ATARI.90 for writing only... not reading.
I renamed the atari.90 cfg entry to atari.90SD and then duplicated it to atari.90DD and made two minor modification to the DD cfg entry and away it went. On DD only, I got the identical track length error on every track of the DD write process, but it does not look to have affected the final diskette as I was able to run two different programs from the disk: FDISK.COM and IDEDIAG.COM.
I have been told that it does not work all the time, but so far since I got it to work the first time, my success rate is 100%. (3 disks)
Of course, it could be much different with protected disks, but I don't have any to test here.
The two minor mods to the DD cfg entry are:
Change the fm to mfm
Make the bps = 256
This works.
I guess next I'll make an ED cfg entry.
Necessity - the mother of need... 🙂
So I got the GW working here. I was able to copy (read) two Atari 8-bit floppy disks (one SD and one DD) and then recreate the ATRs from them using a8rawconv by Phaeron. Both ATRs tested perfectly.
But I have not been able to write Atari floppies thru the GW interface using the GW software... and apparently nobody has been able to accomplish this except for someone named Yellowman and he did it with an enhanced density disk... not a SD or DD disk.
Based on my own experiments, this looks to be difficult but I intend to keep trying. Last night when I started out, I was getting 116 errors (144) on each disk I tried. After some work, I am now able to get this error count down to 65... progress. I am using my Scandisk program to test the sectors for readability.
It's funny... it reads the first 18 secs of the disk and then cannot read 19 and 20 when it goes to the next track... there's a hint here somewhere. I just need to understand it better.
Oh well...