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- From: afsfpel@cidsv03.cid.aes.doe.CA (Yves Pelletier)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Spectre & TT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.152346.29269@cid.aes.doe.CA>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 15:23:46 GMT
- References: <1icdfqINNt3j@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1993Jan5.203916.22548@newshost.lanl.gov> <1993Jan6.095202.3344@news.unige.ch>
- Sender: news@cid.aes.doe.CA (Network News)
- Reply-To: afsfpel@cidsv03.cid.aes.doe.CA (Yves Pelletier)
- Organization: Environment Canada
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- I won't repeat everything that's been written so far about using the
- TT's internal floppy drive with Spectre GCR, but there is this notion
- going around that you can't use 800K Mac floppies on a TT/Spectre. I
- would like to dispell that notion. :)
-
- I use floppy disks with Spectre 3.0 on my TT, all the time. But
- before I can do that, I have to perform a little voodoo, as follows:
-
- 1. Turn off CPU cache.
- 2. From the Atari desktop, format a *double density* floppy.
- 3. Launch Spectre.
-
- After that, I can read, write and format GCR disks without problems.
- This works _every time_ on my TT, and at least one other that I know of.
-
- The main disadvantage of this trick is that you have to wait for a
- whole floppy to format before you can use Spectre. So, I wrote a little
- brain-dead hack that formats just one sector on each side of a floppy.
- If I run this program, instead of step 2 above, everything still works
- fine under Spectre.
-
- I give you this trick to try out, but since I don't know why it
- works, I can't guarantee anything.
-
- Cheers,
-
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- Yves Pelletier afsfpel@cid.aes.doe.ca
- Centre Meteorologique Canadien "I am resplendent in divergence"
- Dorval, Quebec, Canada D.B.
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