LeoBinkowski
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The Official Nabu PC Floppy Disk Controller thread
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snuci
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Ah, that's good. Yes, they are good.
In the meantime, try your floppy drive out. Clean the heads and then try to format a diskette, write to it and confirm reading from it to get ready.
Klyball
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Option Board Done Typo
Klyball
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Now i just need a nabu 
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Y’all might also want to follow what Disk Blitz (creator of the AppleSauce disk imaging tool) has been saying and doing around the Nabu:
oldbytes.space
He’s gotten a good understanding of the on disk format and how the Nabu recognizes its disks.
- Alex
Disk Blitz (@diskblitz@oldbytes.space)
There has been a lot of buzz around the Nabu PC from Canada recently. Being that I had never heard of it before, I wasn't particularly interested. Then I saw some chatter about being able to image the disks, but they couldn't be written back to disk successfully. So of course being the...
He’s gotten a good understanding of the on disk format and how the Nabu recognizes its disks.
- Alex
snuci
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Thanks for the post @ajacocks We've been discussing this in the "Bad disk Image" thread and @diskblitz posted there as well. It was just delayed because his post needed moderation. I think we can trust himY’all might also want to follow what Disk Blitz (creator of the AppleSauce disk imaging tool) has been saying and doing around the Nabu:
Disk Blitz (@diskblitz@oldbytes.space)
There has been a lot of buzz around the Nabu PC from Canada recently. Being that I had never heard of it before, I wasn't particularly interested. Then I saw some chatter about being able to image the disks, but they couldn't be written back to disk successfully. So of course being the...
He’s gotten a good understanding of the on disk format and how the Nabu recognizes its disks.
- Alex
snuci
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Good news. I got a set of boards from @Klyball and after building it, I have successfully booted NABU CP/M from my NABU disk drive. There is still some more testing required as @Klyball built in a 34 pin floppy connector so you don't need the NABU floppy drive but 360K floppy drives should work. That is why more testing is required.
Sorry for the green unreadable background but that's NABU CP/M and the reproduction card is sitting on a box because I forgot about the two standoffs needed I'll provide a better update hopefully tomorrow.
Sorry for the green unreadable background but that's NABU CP/M and the reproduction card is sitting on a box because I forgot about the two standoffs needed
I'll provide a better update hopefully tomorrow.
Very good work, folks! I'll definitely want to get a floppy controller when the 360k support is available.
- Alex
- Alex
twolazy
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Would love to see 720kb support myself... If I can get my hands on one. Have a homemade external 3.5 720kb ( old colorado tape backup case with a PC/XT connector in back) and a 2 5.25 720kb quad density drives in a Tandy Coco 1 floppy encolsure...
Have a homemade external 3.5 720kb ( old colorado tape backup case with a PC/XT connector in back) and a 2 5.25 720kb quad density drives in a Tandy Coco 1 floppy encolsure...
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LeoBinkowski
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Certainly NABU CP/M supports large floppies, and even hard drives. Well, I have different floppy controller that can do DSDD 1.2MB in my development and CABSERVE machines. I bet they're not much different from the consumer floppy controllers besides the actual interface to the cable. I actually have a few floppies in that format that I haven't analyzed yet. The development machines used the NABU 1600 Mass Storage Unit which had a 10MB hard drive, and DSDD floppy. We typically divided it into two 5 MB partitons (E and F). The boot drive had all the utilities and some of the common development files. F in different USER spaces held the different projects I was working on.Would love to see 720kb support myself... If I can get my hands on one.
Klyball
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In theory a 720k will work if the software has the option for 80 track the controller supports DSDD and the side select line is utilized, I don't have a unit to test with yetWould love to see 720kb support myself... If I can get my hands on one.
snuci
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The NABU Floppy controller reproduction just booted a 782K 3.5" floppy It works. Now let's see if I can image this disk properly. It booted a 360K floppy as well. No luck with 1.2MB floppy though
It works. Now let's see if I can image this disk properly. It booted a 360K floppy as well. No luck with 1.2MB floppy though
Klyball
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No HD support with this controller
C128 Guy
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Nice progress!
My Nabu finally shipped today, so I'm interested in building these boards.
My Nabu finally shipped today, so I'm interested in building these boards.
HoJoPo
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I got a tracking number for mine today as well, ordered on 11/27. So he's catching up!
ThisPostContainsComputers
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He must have been very busy today. The one I ordered on 11/26 also finally shipped.
twolazy
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Woot maybe I can get one come new years... Hope there are some left. I had bills and xmas, plus trying to restore a car (Merkur Xr4ti), so was just wrong time when they popped up.
Retro Canada
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where can we get these boards ?
snuci
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There is another revision coming before release so they are not yet available. The details will be posted here one it is available. In the meantime, I posted a video on progress.