Making Osborne 1 boot disks

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Wed Sep 29 19:34:01 1999

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Dwight Elvey wrote:

> "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
 
Don't you mean a 360k drive as opposed to a 1.2mb drive? Or a DD drive
as opposed to a HD drive? There are no SD drives that I am aware of.

                                                 - don
 
Received on Wed Sep 29 1999 - 19:34:01 BST