[Coco] Weird problem with Floppy drive

Stephen Castello zootzoot at cfl.rr.com
Sat Aug 31 19:35:17 EDT 2013


On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 17:25:21 -0500, Brian Goers
<briang0671 at sbcglobal.net> had a flock of green cheek conures squawk
out:

>Has anyone seen a problem like this?
>
>I checked a dual floppy drive and under RSDOS I could DSKINI0, DSKINI1, 
>copy a file drive 0 to 1 or 1 to 0, Backup both ways also. But under 
>OS-9 I the drive 0 would not boot.
>I found the disk with *.bas and did a drive RPM test. Drive 0 was 296.4 
>and Drive 1 301.3.
>
>After adjusting dive 0 to 300.3 everything works fine.
>
>So is RSDOS more tolerant of the disk speed?

I've found that RSDOS & MSDOS is more tolerant of disc errors than
OS9.

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Stephen

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