17 Dec
2002
17 Dec
'02
7:54 p.m.
At 00:05 18/12/2002, you wrote:
Well, they were mostly sat on the airconditioner.... However, as you may
have seen my followup, it turned out to be something else...
Does anyone
have a working boot disk for a Sharp MZ-80B?
I went to use mine for the first time in a few months, and all of the
disks
are either reporting "Not a Master" or
"Read Error". Since I *know*
that at
When _all_ your disks seem to fail at once, I'd suspect something else
(unless you know some idiot has waved a large magnet over the disk box or
something...). Maybe a drive problem (dirty heads, alignment, logic
failure), a cable problem,
That's the one - dodgy cable and/or connector: Using my emergency backup
cable solved the trouble instantly & completely. I can now boot to both
BASIC & CP/M.
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Cheers, Ade.
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