30 Apr
2024
30 Apr
'24
11:29 p.m.
I am not familiar with a 9114 only the 9114A and 9114B.
On 4/30/2024 6:15 PM, Mike Stein wrote:
Just wondering: I see 9114 and 9114A being used
interchangeably (mine
are 9114s); are they the same or actually different drives?
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 5:39 PM Mike Katz via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Thank you for your help.
That is the command I am using on the 41 to try and format the disk.
With a directory size of 60.
On 4/30/2024 4:22 PM, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
Also this article refers to a set of commands for
this drive.
The NEWM command formats a new disk.
Link is
https://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/articles.cgi?read=78
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On Apr 30, 2024, at 14:07, Wayne S <wayne.sudol(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
What kind of floppies did Hp recommend to use with this drive?
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On Apr 30, 2024, at 13:55, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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On Tue, 30 Apr 2024, John Herron via cctalk wrote:
Yup, that's all I used to do. Some scotch tape over the floppy
disk hole to
make the system see it as DD. If it didn't
automatically format
as 720, you
could specify size or sector count with
format.com
<http://format.com> in dos.
Somemedia sensors are optical; use opaque taps.
I did hear folks say it wasn't always reliable (similar to 5.25
disks being
formated on a high density drive) but I never saw
any problems in my
limited use.
3.5" are 600 VS 750 oersted;
5.25" are 300 vs 600 Oersted;
a low density 5.25 formatted as "high density" won't do well;
a high density 5.25" (1.2M) formatted as low density ("360K")
sill self erase VERY soon, sometimes before you can even get it
over to another machine. We had a college purchasing agent in bed
with "Roytype", who kept giving us "1.2M" floppies ofr out
TRS80s;
they self erased very soon.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com