11 May
2014
11 May
'14
3:57 p.m.
You can have a valid MS-DOS format, and versions of
DOS and Windoze that
do not support THAT format will still choke on it.
No windows! LINUX using dd, raw access...
I managed to repair the first machine today.
The first floppy was reading the 720K I had, but diskette written with this
were
readable with a lot of errors on PC.
Diskettes written with second drive wasn't readable anywhere.
It ended up, both drives were misaligned. It took the whole sunday to do it,
but now both are perfectly realigned, and can read/write diskette truly
interchangeable
with the PC and between the drives.
Second unit, el lcd version, with one floppy and fixed
disk. Boots dos
from
hd, but cannot read nor write nor format floppies. It
tries at start, but
reports track 0 errors. Floppy drive broken?
Second and third units still don't read the diskettes written on unit one
(working one).
It would very strange to discover that both machines have broken
controller... too strange...
Or not?
Anybody has similar experiences?
Andrea