25 Jan
2013
25 Jan
'13
5:06 p.m.
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
I don't think that anyone picked up on the
solution
which I found that solved the problem (at least for
each floppy drive) permanently and no longer required
each floppy media to have additional index holes made
in the jacket.
AND, . . .
once the disk is formatted, WD and NEC style controllers can
usually read/write a formatted disK (unless it's an HP disC)
without needing to see index. Therefore only the drive used
for FORMATing needs the modification.
'course not have a functioning index can play havoc with the
guesses that the FDC makes about what is wrong when there is
a problem. INT13h may return an error code 128 (time-out/drive
not ready) when an actual problem might be something else.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com