Teledisk not working

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Wed Apr 4 13:39:37 2001

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Feldman, Robert wrote:

> I have a copy of Teledisk, but have not used it, so my comments might not be
> on the mark. But, I have used other disk format copy programs and know that
> they have trouble copying Kaypro disks unless the source disk was formated
> on the target (non-Kaypro) computer. Apparently the Kaypro (and also Zorba)
> format had some strange features. Might the unusual formatting be the source
> of Joe's problems?
>
> Robert Feldman
> Robert_Feldman_at_jdedwards.com

I have been using TeleDisk for 10 years - since v1.05 and have never had
a problem copying or reproducing Kaypro (or Zorba) disks. The only CP/M
disks ( that immediately occur to me ) that choke it up are Altos
8" SS/DSDD disks which are apparently in M2FM format.

                                                 - don
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Lane [mailto:kyrrin_at_bluefeathertech.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 9:55 AM
> To: Joe
> Cc: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Teledisk not working
>
>
> At 10:10 04-04-2001 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >Bruce,
> >
> > I just tried Teledisk again with the SAME results. This time I used two
> >known good Kaypro 2 disks. Teledisk copied them to files with no
> >complaints. TDChck said that the files were OK. However each file was only
> >281 bytes in size. When I tried to make disks from the files it said that
> >the data had a CRC error.
>
> <snip>
>
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