Starting over with 8" drive on PC

Vintage Computer Festival vcf at siconic.com
Fri Mar 25 23:03:04 CST 2005


Update:

I was using one of those tape drive extender cables so I could easily swap
the cables between my 8" drive and my normal 3.5/5.25 drives and it was
missing pin 2.  I connected the 8" cable directly to the controller and
now I'm getting slightly different results.

When I now try to load any sector from debug I am getting a sector not
found error.

I downloaded a utility that shows the RPM of the drive.  With the DOS
formatted disk in the drive it shows the RPM at 360.  If I put in either
of the NEC CP/M or DOS disks, it errors out.

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