Problems reading older disk on newer drive

[Bill Girnius]

Is it possible it's an 8 sector disk before dos 2.25?
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Subject: Problems reading older disk on newer drive


>
> I think we've discussed this before.  Sorry if we're re-treading old
> ground.
>
> I'm trying to read a disk an old double-density PC formatted disk on a
> high-density drive.  I can read the directory and certain small files just
> fine, but any files that are larger than a few sectors (or perhaps that
> span a track) return "Sector Not Found" errors.  What is the deal with
> that?
>
> This is under DOS 6.22.  Is there a way to get DOS to recognize that this
> is a double-density disk and to perform whatever internal magic is
> necessary to read the disk properly?  Or is this an issue of hardware?
>
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