piner@pur-phy.UUCP (Richard Piner) (10/30/84)
A couple of quick notes tonight. I have a couple of Teac 55A slim line mini floppies on my old LNW-80 and I discovered today that they will do more than 40 tracks. I got some software in that had been written on a 42 track drive, and by gosh, the Teacs could read them. I don't know how far in the drives could be pushed, but at least they were able to go in a couple extra tracks. This little tidbit my help someone else someday. Let's hear it for over design and the folks at Teac. The other little tidbit is a kudo for "Super Utility +". One of the disk I got today had an unreadable sector. Where else, but the HIT table in the directory. SU+ was able to copy the disk anyway. Then I used it to correct the the DAM bit which was bad and rebuild the HIT table. Another dead disk brought back to life. So, hats off to SU+. It doesn't get used often, but when you need it, you really NEED it. Rich Piner Purdue Physics Dept.