RX02 Difficulties

systems_glitch systems.glitch at gmail.com
Sat Dec 16 14:19:30 CST 2017


We've gotten around the formatting issue by formatting SSSD using ImageDisk
on a regular PC (with a floppy controller that supports single density/FM,
of course). If you want RX02 media there's an XXDP routine to upconvert
RX01s to RX02s.

Thanks,
Jonathan

On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> On 12/16/2017 10:43 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 Dec 2017, Aaron Jackson via cctalk wrote:
> >> Well, would you believe it. It was the disks after all. I can't believe
> >> they are all bad!
> >
> > I can believe it.
> > Were they "bad"?
> > Or just not what they were labelled as being?
>
> I suspect that they weren't formatted to the 3740 spec (26/128 FM).
> ISTR that the RX02 doesn't have formatting abilities.
>
> The other possibility is that the disks were DS rather than SS
> (different index aperture position).
>
> --Chuck
>
>
>


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