Hi Tony,
>My Sirius is very 'fussy' about the disks it will handle. It won't use
>most 360K disks. It will work with '80 track' disks....
Interesting, the only discs mine objects to are, surprise, surprise, 1.2Mb
ones.
I'm pretty sure that the discs I used in mine were a mixture of 48tpi and 96tpi
media, no problems with either type here.
>....One day I'll get some suitable drives to experiment with and see if I
>can get it to handle DS, or if there are other changes.
AFAIK the disc controller is exactly the same for SS/DS drives, IE no firmware
changes etc.
>Any ideas which version of MS-DOS that would be? I have 1.25 and 2.2 I
>think somewhere.
OK, I DO have a copy of 1.25 which will access the hard drive. However since
it's v1.25 it's only of academic interest - I also have a copy of (I think) DOS
2.11, complete in "Victor" colours, but that refuses to see the hard drive at
all. I'm told I need a different version of 2.11 which includes support for the
hard drive.
TTFN - Pete.
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Received on Tue Jul 06 1999 - 14:31:00 BST