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- From: csbruce@ccnga.uwaterloo.ca (Craig Bruce)
- Subject: Re: Smart Drives and HD disks
- Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner)
- Message-ID: <DpDK40.MJr@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 05:48:00 GMT
- References: <199604031349.XAA02662@hal9000.net.au>
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- Organization: University of Waterloo, Canada (eh!)
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- In article <199604031349.XAA02662@hal9000.net.au>,
- Gaelyne Moranec <moranec@hal9000.net.au> wrote:
-
- >I use the Big Blue Reader to format the disks as HD, even though I use
- >LRR for daily use.
- >
- >I don't know if anyone else has the problem, but for me, if I have a DD
- >disk in my FD4000 drive when I load LRR, and then switch to using a HD
- >disk everything works great, but if I start off with a HD disk, LRR
- >crashes to la-la-land.
-
- I've had that problem with LRR too, except that instead of just crashing, it
- pulls up a garbage directory for me. I find that everything works fine if I
- access a Commodore-formatted disk first and then pop in the HD HS-DOS disk.
-
- I'm not sure what goes wrong, but I should get on the author's ass about it.
- It may be the FD's ROM that has the bug.
-
- Keep on Hackin'!
-
- -Craig Bruce
- csbruce@ccnga.uwaterloo.ca
- "I feel the need... the need for gratuitous velocity!" -- The Brain
-