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- From: mike@medsun.unige.ch (michel morris)
- Subject: Re: Spectre & TT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.093126.1712@news.unige.ch>
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- Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:31:26 GMT
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- In article <C0LFwz.6Dx@news.rich.bnr.ca>, bjgrier@bnr.ca (Brian Grier) writes:
- > > 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:
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- > > 1. Turn off CPU cache.
- > > 2. From the Atari desktop, format a *double density* floppy.
- > > 3. Launch Spectre.
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- > > 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.
- >
- > According to Dave Small, on GEnie, you should not need to format
- > a double density floppy, but you do need to access one. According
- > to Dave this causes TOS to set the floppy controller to the required
- > density. Just thought I'd pass this along. However I can not confirm
- > this as I own Spectre 128 not GCR.
- >
- I tried the "voodoo", to no avail.
- Exactly WHEN does the TT need to access a DD floppy? Once you have gone into Spectre?
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- Mike M.
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