23 Jan
2013
23 Jan
'13
2:21 p.m.
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 01/23/2013 11:24 AM, Dave Land wrote:
I'm a registered owner of 22Disk and have used it for years with 8"
drives. I don't recall writing a diskdef, but it's possible.
Steve
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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 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... 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.