Re: Not quite understanding this code

From: Spiro Trikaliotis <ml-cbmhackers_at_trikaliotis.net>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 22:27:50 +0100
Message-ID: <20201102212750.GD2056_at_hermes.local.trikaliotis.net>
Hello,

I am not completely familiar with the 4040 drive, but:

* On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 03:19:01PM -0600 vtgearhead wrote:
 
> So, the bigger question is:  Why does a write of the D64 file back to a
> diskette have a difference in only one small region?  Does the 4040 drive
> re-write any of the housekeeping areas on close of the direct-command
> channel?  The target seems to end up with its original volume name even
> though I'd expected the copy operation to overwrite it.  

Can you rule out any caching effects? Did you initialize ("I0") the disk
after the write? Did you remove it and insert it again?

Regards,
Spiro.

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Spiro R. Trikaliotis
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Received on 2020-11-02 23:01:30

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