On Aug 23, 2014, at 08:09 , William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
Can people
please just grow up and stop spamming this list with this
creap?
Crap or creep?
Giggle... I think either word would be appropriate in this case!
Ok, let me write something related to the list's charter to try to restore some of my
tarnished karma: I got my new TRS-80 Model II up and running yesterday. Well, it was
already running before I got it, but now it's less likely to emit smoke after I
replaced the dreaded Rifa paper-dielectric EMI filtering capacitors in its power supply.
I also learned that a Tandon TM848E 8" floppy drive appears to count track step
pulses and refuse to step past track 76, rather than banging the heads against the stop at
a track or two past that like my 5.25" drives do. This wouldn't be a problem,
except that I'm trying to write boot disks with my KryoFlux, and its software tries to
perform a spurious write to track 80. Since the drive won't step beyond track 76, that
spurious write overwrites the last track of the disk rather than harmlessly falling into
the extra mechanical slop track(s) that drives commonly have. The KryoFlux folks have been
informed, and are looking into this. Finding that bug has been made possible by recent
improvements in Keir Fraser's Disk-Utilities software, which have expanded the
KryoFlux's utility into new and under-tested areas, so this issue is a growing pain
brought about by positive progress.
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/