21 Dec
2003
21 Dec
'03
4:15 p.m.
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Rich Sias wrote:
I HAVE a Deluxe Option Board. I am trying to get it to
write to a 1.44
floppy.
It does not work reliably on "high density"
Is there a limit to cable lengths being used before
problems
arise?
Yes
(about 6 feet?)
TCM & TE both read 1.44 floppies just fine, but
the write
functions do NOT work for me. It has been over 12 years since I have
used this board and I may be missing some steps. I have a printed manual
and I have tried everything I can find in it. Now I am in need of
"experts" suggestions to get it going.
You'll havto settle for us.
I am trying to copy a plain 1.44 Mb floppy as an
exercise. I want to
reasonable
copy tracks 80-81 to see if that captures some copy
protection of a
not all drives will step past track 79
TC and TE will often fail to notice a problem on read, but write will
fail
protected disk. (The company does not replace lost
disks, just SELLS you
another registered copy) Running diskcopy gets you an Unregistered copy.
Doing diskcomp shows them to be identical. The difference must be in
tracks 80-81 or other places diskcomp doesn't pay attention to.
Track 80,81 is not a very good way to implement copy protection.
Do you have a reason to assume that?
You might also want to check for additional sectors on regular tracks,
sector sequence on regular tracks, or skew.