hard-sector 5 1/4 disk

From: Wouter de Waal <wrm_at_ccii.co.za>
Date: Thu Nov 8 09:32:33 2001

Hi again

I for one ran an Apple ][ (clone) with two floppies and a monitor
on top of the box, for a long long time, and the only problems
I had was when the one-shots in the drive (how's that for a (belated)
thread merge? :-) drifted so far that disks from one drive wouldn't
read on the other.

And yes, I still have the system, and it still reads the disks.

I owe Tony an apology:

>Why suspect the FDC? This soulds like nothing more than a shorted or
>leaky keyswitch. Have yoy taken the keyboard apart to check for this yet.

I found the correct pins for "Enter" and the floppy tries to
read the disk... I made a disk on the peecee but I since found out
that peecees can't make SD disks... time to go find an old XT
disk controller (I have a few :-) and gippo it to read and write
SD.

Seeya

Wouter in digest mode
Received on Thu Nov 08 2001 - 09:32:33 GMT