RL02 Disk Cartridge Problems

From: ben franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Mon Dec 2 22:42:01 2002

Christopher McNabb wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 22:01, John Lawson wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Christopher McNabb wrote:
>>
>
>
>> With deference to further incoming opinions, I would think perhaps the
>>data format is completely incompatible, and the drive can't 'find' the
>>correct bit pattern, and thus it pukes. Tony Duell is familiar with the
>>internal operation of the RL02, and perhpas he can shed better light.
>>
>
>
> The label says it is Stand Alone Forth-11. That said, I know I'm guilty
> of not changing disk labels after overwriting data, so it is entirely
> possible that something else is on the disk..
>

Forth is known for not using a disk file system
and reading/writing directly to disk. Forth is
one place you need to be very carefull reading the
docs.
Received on Mon Dec 02 2002 - 22:42:01 GMT