Making Osborne 1 boot disks

From: Dwight Elvey <elvey_at_hal.com>
Date: Wed Sep 29 17:58:57 1999

"Olminkhof" <jolminkh_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> I have finally got an Osborne 1 with SSDD drives to add to my others that
> have SSSD drives. Now I have finally been able to boot an O1 with a SSDD
> boot image courtesy of Don Maslin.
>
> I have been unable to make SSSD disks on a PC. Is there any way I can now
> make one with the SSDD Osborne?
>
> Thanks,
> Hans


Hi Hans
 The biggest trouble with making SSSD on a PC is that
you should use a SD drive. If you have a DD drive, the
track width is smaller ( assuming that we are talking
about 5-1/4 inch drives). In an emergency, one can place
the disk on a flat iron metal surface, ( I use the refrigerator )
then a few pieces of paper and drag a strong magnet over
the entire disk. You then reformat the disk with whatever density
you like and it will work on SD drives. You can not use
preformated disk because the DD drive doesn't completely
erase the original track. It is still best to us a SD drive.
Dwight
Received on Wed Sep 29 1999 - 17:58:57 BST