WTD: 5.25' DSDD drive & Acorn Master128 keystrip scan/schematic - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 May 2005

...
 > was to format it on the 48 tpi drive and then
re-write it on the
> 96 tpi drive. 
...
  What good does that do? 
Against reason it used to work.

...
  You'd be better off bulk-erasing the disk (with an
AC-enegized 
 electromagnet, not a disk drive!), formatting it on the 80 cylinder 
 drive, writing it there, and the reading it on the 40 cylinder one. 
That wasn't an option, the degausser available couldn't reliably
erase a disk. The eventual solution was to replace the few remaining
40 track drives.

Lee.

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