Karin "Maxi Wishes"

I don't know if the developers have any interest in making changes/improvements in the Maxi, but thought I'd start a thread -- just in case there are some things that can be done without a great deal of work.  And if not (it is what it is) then no problem.

1. My first wish would be that the Maxi be able to read two-sided disks as does the XF551 -- read/write all of one side then go to side 2.  Reason -- I have several hundred 3-1/2" disks that are written in XF551 format.  I suspect I'm not alone.

2. Wish #1 might be a really big deal -- maybe not -- I don't know.  But maybe there is an intermediate step that might be much easier.  Have a setting (or a permanent change in the eprom code) that allows the MAXI to simply ignore side 2.  That seems like it should be easier to do.  This would be especially useful for 5-1/4" disks.  As it stands, it looks like if you have a double-sided drive, the Maxi is going to treat it as a double-sided drive.  Reason -- most "modern" 5-1/4" drives are two-sided.  Since there is no setting in the Karin dip-switches to select 1-sided or 2-sided, you can't use it with any of the disks you already have.  So in this case, I would set the Karin to ignore my side 2/(b) of my 5-1/4" and go ahead as-is with the 3-1/2" as two-sided.

Now if there is a way "around" these issues with the current setup, please let me know.

Thanks,
Larry