8" drive on a pc controller

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Thu Apr 15 13:41:16 1999

On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:

> Shouldn't you gentlemen be considering, instead of which format, at what
> kind of DRIVE is involved?
 
Excellent point, as I have been using a Mitsubishi that I set at 6ms.

                                                 - don
 
> > 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
>
>
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