21 Jul
2013
21 Jul
'13
7:07 p.m.
On Mon, 22 Jul 2013, Philip Pemberton wrote:
I'm on the verge of getting DiscFerret write
support working (at least
for UNIX PC disks) but the sodding thing won't read anything my 80-track
drives have written!
I hope not to offend you if you already know this, . . .
Use a 300 Oersted (360K) diskette.
BULK ERASE the disk before writing to it with the 80 track drive.
A disk that has been bulk-erased, and then formatted and written by 80
track is significantly different than a disk that has been written to by a
40 track drive, and then RE-written by an 80 track drive.
Although the 80 track 96tpi (1/4mm) spacing drive is easily able to
double-step to do 40 track, it's head is about 1/6mm wide, and doesn't do
a good job of REwriting something that has ever been written to by a 48tpi
(1/3mm wide head with 1/2mm spacing) drive.
Good luck,
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com