15 Apr
1999
15 Apr
'99
10:53 a.m.
Shouldn't you gentlemen be considering, instead of which format, at what
kind of DRIVE is involved?
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
> > Oh? I'm running v1.44 and have no such problems.
> Try creating a disk with a large directory, more than two tracks.
> Then try to display the directory. On all of the drives that I have
> tried, you will hear that little "click/tick" sound indicating that it
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> tried to step the heads too fast. You will then
get a spurious
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> media failure message. Of course, it is possible
that I missed
> something in the instructions, but I beat my head against it
> for a long time. Then tried the older version where you can
> manually set the step delay and volia! No problems.
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Don
Maslin wrote:
Bill, I have and have run versions 1.1, 1.32, 1.33,
1.34, 1.35, 1.39,
1.42, and 1.44 and have not experienced any timing problems. Should I
presume that this is a format description that you have created, or does
it represent an existing format?
Tell me what format it is, or send me a copy of the disk description, and