Re: Questions about FloppyEmu and Lisa 2/5 compatibility

I also wrote the creator of the Floppy Emu about this problem. I have an 
Apple Lisa 2, with the profile drive. My Lisa works perfectly. I can tell 
you that the Floppy Emu does not work with the Lisa Lite card. The creator, 

On Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 1:22:01 AM UTC-7, Tom Stepleton wrote:
>
> I used a Floppy Emu on my 2/10 to help develop my floppy bootloader
> <https://github.com/stpltn/bootloader>, which makes use of the tag bytes
> (it requires them to work at all). The caveat is that I've had the Floppy
> Emu for a perhaps a year or even a year and a half now, and I've never
> updated the firmware since installing it.
>
> So Floppy Emu certainly supported tag bytes at some point. If there has
> been a firmware update in the past twelve months or so, though, it might
> not support them any longer.
>
> I'd tell you the firmware version I'm using now, but my 2/10 is out of
> service for a video board recap. Hopefully it will be a success, and I can
> check again soon.
>
> --Tom
>
> On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 9:53:08 AM UTC+1, PSchaefer wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Am Montag, 11. September 2017 14:44:58 UTC+2 schrieb Tim Senior:
>>>
>>>
>>> I too have bought a Floppy Emu rev B to use on my Lisa 2, I can make it
>>> work on a Macintosh Classic but have the same issue with trying to use it
>>> on my Lisa 2/5, I have written to Stephen Chamberlin and he has directed me
>>> to this group to see if anyone else is having the same problem, My Lisa is
>>> fully working with working 400K floppy drive so the problem would seem to
>>> be with the Floppy Emu
>>>
>>
>> It may be different today, but in the past FloppyEmu supported only 512
>> bytes per block. This is good for Macintosh, but a Lisa needs 520 resp. 532
>> bytes. These extra bytes ("tags") are used to manage the file system
>> structure (preceding block, next block, ...). I have asked for Lisa/520
>> byte support in the BMOW comments section some time ago, but Steve saw no
>> need for this. Maybe in the future?
>>
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>>
>>

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