On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Dave Baggett wrote:
> Tony Duell wrote:
>
> >As regards getting more hard sectored disks, I've not found a source.
>
> Actually, I found a place on the web today (about 10 miles from my
> house, amusingly) that can make 10-track hard sector floppies. They
> say it will take 3-4 weeks, but were willing to sell me some for $1 a
> piece, or cheaper for quantities of 5000 or more. :)
> Here's their web address: http://www.athana.com
They have been around for a while. I think that I have some Athana 8"
disks around here.
> On the subject of the nonbooting HDOS disks, I don't think there's
> anything wrong with the machine (I have two separate machines
> exhibiting the same behavior, after all) -- I think the disks are just very
> borderline. I adjusted the rotational speed on one of the H89's
> (it should be 200 according to my Heath manual) and then was able
If that is rpm, 300 would seem correct, vice 200.
- don
> to get one of the HDOS disks to almost boot. But part way through the
> boot sequence it gets some unpleasant error and complains. So I
> suspect that if I had a fresh copy of an HDOS disk it would boot.
> Still don't know why the CP/M disks fared better, but perhaps they're
> a bit younger...
>
> Dave
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Received on Wed Dec 01 1999 - 18:01:25 GMT