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Post #17 by NJRoadfan
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateTue, 24 Feb 2015 - 05:25
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/calling-lisa-gurus-floppy-emu-disk-emulation.1329/
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One thing I'm curious about, based on that screenshot of the Lisa "PFG" control panel: is the data rate on the Lisa's drive interface slightly different than on the Mac? It talks about initializing the... whatever, at either "15.7mhz" or "16mhz"; I vaguely recall that that the IWM has clock inputs that are nominally either 7mhz or 8mhz depending on whether it's used in an Apple II or a Mac, but the clock signal actually supplied to it in the hardware was more like 7.85mhz. That's less than 5%, and of course the disk controller is supposed to be able to compensate for some degree of disk speed variation, but if the Lisa clocks its controller at a straight 8 mhz is it possible that the data stream coming from the FloppyEmu is just far enough out spec that the Lisa is having trouble locking onto it?
The Apple IIgs runs the IWM at 7.159 MHz (on pin 24 FCLK). Testing with the daisy chain board from an Apple 3.5" Drive indicates the FloppyEmu works on that platform despite the timing difference.

Also dug this ancient bit of text up, the IWM apparently existed in some form in 1982, although this version is likely pre-3.5" disk: http://www.applelogic.org/files/IWM.pdf

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