TELEDISK Problem

From: joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Sat May 12 13:37:46 2001

     I swapped my 1.2mb drive for a Teac 360k drive. No difference. I
tried both BIOS and Direct settings with no difference. I'm running MS_DOS
and rebooted with NO drivers or TSRs but nothing helps. The one odd thing
is that it's NOT making a good copy of a disk even though it reports that
it has. TDCheck also reports that it's a good copy. But obviously it can't
be if the file size is only 256 bytes and the original disk was full. I
know it seems to be working for nearly everyone else but Teledisk simply
will not work for me! My only guess at this point is that perhaps it's
incompatible with my FD controller IC. But BIOS should isolate it from
that, so who knows.

     Joe


At 11:41 AM 5/12/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Wierd. I bought it then too and it worked fine for me. Are you using it with
>a genuine 360k 5.25 inch floppy drive? I know there are issues with the
>track width doing low density disks with a high density drive.
>
>-Jim Strickland
>
> >
> > Eric,
> >
> > I'm having a similar problem with Teledisk. I was one of the ones
> that
> > bought their's in the group purchase and I have a registered copy. I've
> > contacted Bruce who made the group purchase and he has contacted the new
> > owner's of teledisk. They both say that they can't find a problem with it
> > but IT WILL NOT WORK FOR ME!!!! It appears to copy disks to files fine and
> > TDCheck says that the files are ok but most of the files are very small,
> > typically 256 bytes. When you try to create a disk from the file it gives
> > the same kind of errors that you're getting. I've tried Teledisk with at
> > least 50 different disks (most KNOWN good) and at least 6 different data
> > formats but the ONLY thing it will copy is MS_DOS disks. I've given
> up on
> > it. I've already tried everything that everyone has suggested and I'm fed
> > up with telling everyone over and over what I've already done. Chalk
> it up
> > to a bad investment!
> >
> > Joe
>
>
>--
>Jim Strickland
>jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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