Can't read CP/M disks on PC

Randy McLaughlin cctalk at randy482.com
Mon Mar 7 12:43:23 CST 2005


From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 10:56 AM
> So now that I've got the 8" drive running well on the PC, I am trying to
> read 8" CP/M disks.  22Disk is giving me sector not found errors
> (cylinder 2, side 0, sector 1) and the DOS CP/M tools are giving me
> "Unknown floppy disk format", even on disks that read fine on my NEC APC.
>
> I tried reading in a sector using debug but I also get read errors.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> The drive is a Tandon TM 848-02.  Very little information online, but it
> seems to support DSDD.
>
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What are you using:

What version of DOS?

What version of 22disk?

What disk format?

Have you tested 22disk as I mentioned in past post?


Randy 




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