From: William Levak (wlevak_at_sdf.lonestar.org)
Date: 2008-01-18 07:32:59
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, RayBryan wrote:
> I have wrestling with a drive repair for weeks now. I thought I had it all
> fixed; it was reading the Dysan 224a alignment (analog) diskette (Commodore
> 970016 01 48 TPI alignment diskette) with sine wave tracks on 16 & 18 and 34
> (according to Dysan docs) and so it then passed the all the Commodore
> Consumer Diag V2 tests except the #7 test to fast format and write then read
> selected tracks (well it did pass that test with one of the F15 scratch
> disks). But it would not format a floppy always reporting 21 read error 00
> 00. I tried then formatting with 3 more Newtronics drives and got that same
> response.
Are you sure your floppy disks are good? Do they read and write on a
different type of drive? Do they read and wrie on a DOS machine (assuming
you still have one with a 5 1/4 drive?
I sometimes have to bulk erase floppies to get them to work in a different
format.
wlevak@sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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