22 Jul
2013
22 Jul
'13
10:17 a.m.
On 22/07/13 03:07, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jul 2013, Philip Pemberton wrote:
Way ahead of you :) I bought a ton of them several years ago. A few of
them (mostly brand-name) are dud, but the unbranded and unlabelled ones
work fine...
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.
Can't - I don't have a bulk eraser. Yet another thing I've been looking
out for on ebay but which only ever appears for some stupid amount of money.
I don't actually have a 360K-capable PC drive - all I have is a YE Data
YD-380B (which is 1.2MB-only) and the Viglen dual-disk BBC drive which
won't work at all (drive selects are wired differently to how the PC
wants them).
Thanks,
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/