[Coco] 8 inch drive

[Arthur Flexser]

Or, on the other hand, if you find it is just one or two bad sectors, maybe
you just need to try a few more 8-inch diskettes to see if any can be
formatted correctly.

Art

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 11:58 AM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

> It appears to me that some, but not all, sectors are formatting correctly,
> so that when the verify pass of DSKINI is attempted, somewhere it hits a
> sector that cannot be read and you get the IO error.  You might try running
> a program that reads each sector in turn to see what tracks and sectors
> give rise to errors.  Maybe it is something that alignment adjustment might
> correct, if all errors are occurring at, say, near the hub or near the
> outer edge of the disk.
>
> Art
>
>
> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 8:19 AM, rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 8 inch floppy drive on a coco3
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