8" drive on a pc controller

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Thu Apr 15 10:53:25 1999

Shouldn't you gentlemen be considering, instead of which format, at what
kind of DRIVE is involved?


> 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.
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Don Maslin wrote:
> 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
Received on Thu Apr 15 1999 - 10:53:25 BST