23 Jan
2013
23 Jan
'13
12:11 p.m.
On 01/23/2013 11:24 AM, Dave Land wrote:
On 1/23/13 11:00 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
That's odd--I don't remember ever adding an 8" 820-II format to
22Disk--lots of 820-II 5.25" formats, though. As far as I can tell, the
only 8" Xerox format is for the 16/8 system. And Don got his 22Disk
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Dave Land wrote:
The version I had didn't have the necessary info in the diskdefs file for
the 8" drive on the 820-II, but like I mentioned earlier, I got a diskdefs
file that has that, and a lot more, from the Dave Maslin archive. Going to
try tonight if I have time to work with it. I've gotten successful copies
already via Dave Dunfield's Image Disk program so I know it works somewhat. I actually have the .HEX files for the machine,
but I tried to get them
transferred with 22disk, and it doesn't seem to like 8" drives too much
(ver. 1.42 or 1.44).
What kind of problems?
If 22disk has difficulties with your 8" drives, then whatever THAT
problem is may need to be dealt with for any other software attempts. from me--and he was a registered user. We still sell
22Disk, though
not in great numbers (sold 4 licenses in December).
So now we know where the rumors about 22Disk not working with 8" drives
comes from...
Will your 820-II read type A1 disks? If your PC can write
single-density (FM) you might start with that.
But then, what do I know?
--Chuck