[Coco] No Nitr(OS-9) in this coco

Diego Barizo diegoba at adinet.com.uy
Fri Aug 4 22:53:50 EDT 2006


No, that's not the case.
This same disk booted without issues a month or so ago, and was created 
in the CoCo from another Nitros-9 disk (that doesn't work now either)
And the same problem is present with original games disks, that I'm 
guessing are 35 tracks.
Thanks for trying anyway.

Diego

>
> Yes,
>
> Assuming you're writing the disk on a 1.2M drive and trying to read it 
> on a low density CoCo drive, you may be running into head width issues.
>
> In a nutshell, the 1.2M drive writes tracks that are half the width of 
> the 40 track ones. Your 40 track drive might not be able to read it 
> properly.
>
> If that's the situation, the best thing to do would be to bulk erase 
> the disk and try again.
>
> If you move over to 3.5" disks, that problem will go away.
>
> -Mike
>




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