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|    Richard VanHouten to All    |
|    Re: Model 4 double sided disk drives    |
|    01 Jul 08 18:40:36    |
      From: richvh@citlink.net              glynf1 wrote:       > I have been refurbishing a Model 4. All works well with the exception of       > double sided drives under TRSDOS 6.2.1 ( I can run Montezuma CP/M which will       > format double sided disks) TRSDOS gives the option of double sided when       > formatng, but the veryfy fails on all tracks - one sided will format Ok       > What am I doing wrong?       > Any help would be appreciated.       > Thanks       > Glyn       >       >       Sounds to me like maybe MM CP/M is just thinking it successfully       formatted both sides - have you replaced the drive cables with ones that       don't have the side select pin (DS4 pin in Tandy drives) pulled?              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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