[Coco] XP-OmniFlop & DSk

[Stephen Castello]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:24:40 -0700, leonard <leonard23 at verizon.net>
had a flock of green cheek conures squawk out:

>Roger, I'm using omniflop version j.  I formatted the disk using the device
>descriptor labeled "80/2/18X256(RadioShack CoCo NitrOS9 80 trk DS) 720kb.  I
>assume this is correct for a 3 1/2" floppy.  The disks are the proper type.
>They are not 1.44 Mb.
>
>I then tried to write the image file using the RadioShack Coco NitrOS9 80
>trk DS descriptor for which I had applied for a license.  It actually starts
>moving it over, but then fails about 1/2 way in.  Maybe I should use the 40
>track descriptors?  I think Omniflop is working, and it's probably something
>I'm doing wrong?
>
>Thanks for the reply!
>
>Leonard

The 720kb is the right one.  I've found that you might have to write
the image more than once to get it written correctly.

Stephen
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