8" hard sectored floppies

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Thu Jun 3 18:10:37 2004

> >Unfortunately, the 765 does a "reset" of the chip whenever it sees the
> >index. It can handle NOT having an index hole (AFTER formatting),
> >but excess holes will keep it from working.

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> Hi Fred
> When I first got my first PC, I didn't have anything
> but hard sectored disk that I'd used on my H89. I made
> a foil disk that I put in with the disk to get around this
> problem for formatting. It had a large hole that most
> of the time only exposed one index hole. Placing it
> in the drive was tricky but with access to the top of the
> drive I made it work.
> Of course, I later bought a box of 360K disk but this
> trick did get me started.
> Dwight

If you just use that for FORMATing, you could then disable the index for
all subsequent access, either by putting opaque tape over the hole in the
diskette jacket (won't work with some TEAC drives), or interrupting that
wire in the cable.
Received on Thu Jun 03 2004 - 18:10:37 BST