12 Oct
2007
12 Oct
'07
4:09 p.m.
Tell me about it; went through 7 mobo/fdcs while
trying to help Dave D;
although some could write OK (which was all I really needed to recreate
his images), I never did find one that could *read* using IMD or Uniform.
Slowed down the drive, which sometimes helps, but still no good reads.
That's why I keep at least one Cromemco system up & running; much
easier to go the other way and copy to MSDOS disks on the Cromemco
(or transfer files the old-fashioned RS-232 way).
No kidding - I just discovered last night that the XT I had set up to
run Uniform can read the disks recreated with IMD just fine, but can't
read the original Cromemco disks ... probably the gap is just a bit
shorter on the originals - the drives in the XT aren't easily slowed
(Panasonic)...
Anyway, I think I have a working solution now (See next posting). Thanks
again for all your help.
Dave
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