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- On 6 Mar 1996, Duncan Reed wrote:
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- > Wowbagger (apelton@coventry.ac.uk) wrote:
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- > : Hi does any one use diskspare 3.0 on highdenisty disks. As I have tried
- > : to get a 80 Track HD disk to format usind diskspare, I have altered the
- > : flags, changed the HiCyl= value the sectors for 12 to 24 and every time i
- > : change something I test it and each time it will not format the disk. I
- > : have tried Branded and unbranded disks, and still no luck, but the disks
- > : format using Intl-FFS no probs.
- >
- > : BTW : I am using a Power XL Drive with patch software V1.4 on a A1200+6Mb+030
- > :
- > I to spen hours trying to get diskspare working with a Power XL Drive, I came
- > to the conclusion that diskspare was design to work with a 4000 type HD
- > drive and not the hacked and patched XL drive.
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- Well, I seem to have managed to get it working on my 1200, XL drive. I
- used the extra space (HiCyl = 81) though, may make a difference, wouldn't
- have thought so though. You realise that from DiskSpare 3.0, it auto
- detects HD disks, so you can just leave the Sectors at 12? (afair anyway,
- check the docs... :)
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- BTW I'm using the 1.4 patch software too.
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- Simon Dick sidick@essex.ac.uk
- IRC: SimD
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