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|    Norman Firth to Richard VanHouten    |
|    Re: Model 4 double sided disk drives    |
|    04 Jul 08 09:59:00    |
      From: glynf1@cox.net              Richard VanHouten wrote:       > 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?       It was the cable - I wonder what purpose the verify command serves in       cp/m. I also have an SVD that i purchased from Less it works great for       translating the dsk files.              thanks for the help              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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