12 May
2001
12 May
'01
8:04 a.m.
On Sat, 12 May 2001, joe wrote:
I swapped my 1.2mb drive for a Teac 360k drive.
No difference. I
tried both BIOS and Direct settings with no difference. I'm running MS_DOS
and rebooted with NO drivers or TSRs but nothing helps. The one odd thing
is that it's NOT making a good copy of a disk even though it reports that
it has. TDCheck also reports that it's a good copy. But obviously it can't
be if the file size is only 256 bytes and the original disk was full. I
know it seems to be working for nearly everyone else but Teledisk simply
will not work for me! My only guess at this point is that perhaps it's
incompatible with my FD controller IC. But BIOS should isolate it from
that, so who knows.
Not so. Neither BIOS nor DIRECT mode can isolate you from your FD
controller IC. In either case it is what 'talks' to the drive
electronics. DIRECT simply talks directly to the IC and avoids BIOS
calls.
- don
Joe
At 11:41 AM 5/12/01 -0600, you wrote:
Wierd. I bought it then too and it worked fine
for me. Are you using it with
a genuine 360k 5.25 inch floppy drive? I know there are issues with the
track width doing low density disks with a high density drive.
-Jim Strickland
Eric,
I'm having a similar problem with Teledisk. I was one of the ones
that
bought their's in the group purchase and I
have a registered copy. I've
contacted Bruce who made the group purchase and he has contacted the new
owner's of teledisk. They both say that they can't find a problem with it
but IT WILL NOT WORK FOR ME!!!! It appears to copy disks to files fine and
TDCheck says that the files are ok but most of the files are very small,
typically 256 bytes. When you try to create a disk from the file it gives
the same kind of errors that you're getting. I've tried Teledisk with at
least 50 different disks (most KNOWN good) and at least 6 different data
formats but the ONLY thing it will copy is MS_DOS disks. I've given
up on
it. I've already tried everything that
everyone has suggested and I'm fed
up with telling everyone over and over what I've already done. Chalk
it up
to a bad investment!
Joe
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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