Teledisk problem

From: Christian Corti <cc_at_corti-net.de>
Date: Wed Sep 1 09:46:49 2004

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Richard Lynch wrote:
> disk, but I can't be sure because I can't recreate the disk. It gets to 32
> sectors and can't find anymore. I have a similar problem trying to use
> Anadisk to format an 8" floppy. I set it to 48 sectors, but it only writes
> out to 32 sectors.

What disk format are you trying to create? Nearly all PC floppy
controllers (and probably other controllers, too) can't handle more than
32 sectors/track. I've found one that could do more (up to about 50) but I
don't remember the type right now (maybe a DP8473). Other things that
could cause problems are the GAP sizes which can't be made too small. I
tried it when I wanted to create 52 sec/trk MFM disks, although 26 sec/trk
FM works fine.

Christian
Received on Wed Sep 01 2004 - 09:46:49 BST