8" drive on PC troubleshooting

[Dwight K. Elvey]

Hi
 Darn, I wish I'd of thought of that! This makes
sense.
Dwight


>From: "Steve Thatcher" <melamy at earthlink.net>
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>when you are  formatting tracks you have effectively slowed the stepping 
>rate down to a rate slow enough for the stepper motor to keep up with 
>(step, time to format, and then step again...). When you are returning to 
>track 00, the drive is stepping at the fastest rate that the controller is 
>configured for.
>
>best regards, Steve
>
>At 06:18 PM 03/01/2005, you wrote:
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>>So what I'm wondering is why it works fine when it's stepping towards the
>>center of the disk but not when it's stepping back out.
>>
>>As I mentioned previously, the format command actually works: it steps 77
>>tracks inward, but can't move back to track 0 to write the boot sector and
>>directory.
>>
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>>Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer 
Festival
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