Writing images to 820k disks?

[Mentalbass]

I saw Posts before but I'm stuck with following:

 

I have 2 1040 STF's. That's the fun part :-)

I can use omniflop with external USB floppy to write 720k files to disk....no problem there. When try 820k files no luck! Omniflop won't write the good or fully.

- I tried pumpup format.

- I tried MSA splitter but both STF's stops after writing successfully first msa part and asking for next disk....Atari just stops the program.

- floimg doesn't work because I don't own an internal fed drive.

 

I use fastcopy 3 to format the disk to 820k. That works.

Setup:

2x STF

Win 10 PC

Win xp PC

External USB floppy drive

 

Is there a simple way for a noob like me to write 820k files to a disk? A program that does it all?

Sorry if this is been mentioned hundred times before. But no luck so far

[Amimitl2]

The only way of writing 820K disk images to floppy is with an internal floppy drive. If you had more than 1MB memory on the STs, it would probably be possible to use Ghostlink and a null modem cable to transfer the disk images over to the ST and write it on a floppy with a program like JAY MSA for instance.

 

But I think the simplest would be to get a HxC Floppy Emulator, where you can transfer disk images to the ST with an SD Card instead. The alternative is to get a desktop computer with an internal floppy drive. Plus you will need to get DD floppies, as formatting HD floppes as DD is not that reliable. Even floppies in general are not that reliable in the long run, when it comes to corruption.

[vattari]

Amimitl2 has stated it perfectly.

 

When I realised this, the IT solution that I went with to get around this was to buy an old All-in-one PC (P4, 15" LCD, floppy, CDROM running Windows XP) for AUD$25. It kept the investment/space to a minimum.

(Of course, once I bought SD card-based storage solution and a ParCP, I copied all the disk image files over)

 

 

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Edited December 20, 2016 by vattari

[Mentalbass]

End of January next year it goes for the gotek emulator custom build-in.

Indeed durability will be an issue langterm so the emulator is the best way to preserve gaming fun.

Thanks all!

[tjlazer]

Old Skool internal Floppy Drive on Windows and a program called Floppy Image. Done. No other way to do it with a USB Floppy drive.

[Mentalbass]

http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=7164

Check this.