Sprague.WBST311@XEROX.COM (08/20/90)
Does anyone use the 22DISK shareware program on a PC, to transfer files to and from Xerox 820 series disks? At this point, I only have the shareware verison, not the registered version. I thought I would make sure it would work for me, before I actually paid the registration fee. I can *NOT* get it to work however. The shareware version supports 5 different Xerox formats, though one has nothing to do with the 820's (perhaps it's for the Xerox 6085 workstation). I started out trying the standard Xerox 820-II format. It could find no files on the 820 disk I was using, even though my 820-II said there were. I tried formatting an 820-II disk on the PC, but the 820 could not read it. I assume this is because my PC could not write track 0 as single density. The other day, I recieved some disks through the mail, contaning some public domain software that I had been looking for. It had been formatted for the 820-II 16/8 DEM. 22DISK could not read these disks either, even though two different DEM formats (called EM-II in Uniform and 22 DISK), including the proper one are supported. The only Xerox 820 series format I have not tried is the single density 820 format. In addition, when I looked at the Disk Definition file for 22DISK, I think the section for the single density 820 is wrong. What I would like to know before I waste any more time on 22DISK, is if anyone else has used it with any success on one of the Xerox 820 series computers. ~ Mike
crmeyer@voodoo.ucsb.edu (08/22/90)
-Message-Text-Follows- In article <900820-100100-1669@Xerox>, Sprague.WBST311@XEROX.COM writes... > >Does anyone use the 22DISK shareware program on a PC, to transfer files to >and from Xerox 820 series disks? At this point, I only have the shareware >verison, not the registered version. I thought I would make sure it would >work for me, before I actually paid the registration fee. I can *NOT* get >it to work however. If all else fails, contact the folks who publish 22DISK at Sybex. I have found them to be EXTREEMLY helpfull. I had problems with formatting Morrow disks (read and wrote fine). Upon contacting them, they sent me a disk mailer to send to them a disk formatted on my Morrow. They then sent me back a 'tweeked' configuration file that worked fine. +-----------------------------------+ | Charles R. Meyer | | | | Internet: crmeyer@voodoo.ucsb.edu | | Bitnet: crmeyer@voodoo | | HEPnet: voodoo::crmeyer | +-----------------------------------+