jnp@calmasd.GE.COM (John Pantone) (09/02/87)
I recently got hold of two double sided double density 5" floppy drives
which had been part of a XEROX CP/M machine. They work well and I have
installed one as drive :1 on my Mod 4. After changing the step rate on
drive :1 and sysgen-ing it works great EXCEPT it will only function as a
single sided drive. If I answer 2 to the SIDES? prompt from the format
utility, it appears to fail to verify every track - it lockes them out
(00* 01* ...)
If, however, I use SuperCROSS/XT to format the disk as one of the double
sided double density CP/M formats - it works just fine.
It isn't - apparently - the hardware.
WHAT MUST I DO?? ANY GUESSES ?
e-mail please.
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John M. Pantone @ GE/Calma R&D, Data Management Group, San Diego
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