8" drive on PC troubleshooting

[Steve Thatcher]

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:

>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