Floppy format question.
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu May 11 20:34:34 UTC 2006
Roy Henning wrote:
> It sounds like your floppy drive has failed or you are using inferior
> disks.
>
> Roy Henning
>
>
>>>> satimis at yahoo.com 05/11 9:50 AM >>>
>>>>
> Hi folks,
>
> On formatting floppy, most of the floppies in my possession failed to
> get through verification, such as
>
> Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 0, expected 18432, read 8192
> Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 51, expected 18432, read 10240
> Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 1, expected 18432, read 14336
> etc.
>
> Format has no problem. Please advise how to fix them.
>
> TIA
>
> B.R.
> SL
>
This is, generally speaking, about what I get when I try to use an HD
diskette in a drive thats truely DD compatible. It simply doesn't drive
the record head hard enough to get the HD media's attention, so the
verify fails.
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Cheers, Gene
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