8" drive on a pc controller

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Wed Apr 14 23:11:38 1999

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Bill Sudbrink wrote:

> > Oh? I'm running v1.44 and have no such problems.
>
> Try creating a disk with a large directory, more than two tracks.
> Then try to display the directory. On all of the drives that I have
> tried, you will hear that little "click/tick" sound indicating that it
> tried to step the heads too fast. You will then get a spurious
> media failure message. Of course, it is possible that I missed
> something in the instructions, but I beat my head against it
> for a long time. Then tried the older version where you can
> manually set the step delay and volia! No problems.
 
Bill, I have and have run versions 1.1, 1.32, 1.33, 1.34, 1.35, 1.39,
1.42, and 1.44 and have not experienced any timing problems. Should I
presume that this is a format description that you have created, or does
it represent an existing format?

Tell me what format it is, or send me a copy of the disk description, and
I will be happy to run it.
                                                 - don
Received on Wed Apr 14 1999 - 23:11:38 BST