12 Aug
2006
12 Aug
'06
3:07 p.m.
Not that I'd toss it if one of those were to come
my way...
Somewhere I also have a "drive exerciser" cartridge that plugged into a Yamaha
CX-5 computer as well -- this was no doubt meant for their drive but would
work equally well with any other drive that could be plugged in and powered
up if you adjusted the value of the maximum track number, which was easy
enough to do in the software since it ran in BASIC. It came in handy a few
times.
What exactly does the "drive excerciser" do which comes in handy? -- I've
got
some diagnostics and drive test tools built into ImageDisk which I find very useful,
and I'd be happy to add any other such functions that folks need (provided of
course that it can be done with the PC hardware).
Dave
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