Starting over with 8" drive on PC

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 12:15 AM
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Randy McLaughlin wrote:
>
>> From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
>> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 10:49 PM
<snip>
>> You can try to format an 8" SSSD disk from the PC and copy files to it.
>
> How?  DOS doesn't allow you to do this.  Don't have a Linux box handy.
> Don't have time.  For fuck's sake, didn't anyone ever write any decent DOS
> utilities to do this shit?  (Yes, I know I am whiny, but I'm tired.)
>
>> Make sure you are running a real DOS and not a shell from within windoze.
>
> Of course: DOS 6.22.  The last true DOS.  The only OS MS ever did that was
> actual pretty stable and robust.
>
>> Make sure you are using 22disk version 1.42.
>
> 1.44 unregistered.
>
> The problem still remains I don't know if my controller handles FM.  I
> don't even know if this is my problem, or if I even need my controller to
> handle FM.  The disks I'm trying to read purport to be double density
> anyway.  What the hell am I rambling about?  I have no idea.  I'm lame.
> I'm going home.
>
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I sent you a copy of 22dsk142 off list, it is required for 8" support.

I repeat 22disk v1.42 is required for 8" support.

Using 22disk v1.42 try and format an 8" SSSD disk, then still using 22disk 
v1.42 copy some files to it.

22disk v1.44 is OK for 5.25" support, even from a window in Win9X but it 
does not work right with 8" drives!

If 22disk v1.42 gives you errors with SSSD you may not have a controller 
that supports FM.

Get anadisk and test an APC disk to try and read it.

Go to my website and check out the disk & disk drive page.


Randy
www.s100-manuals.com