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- From: afsfpel@cid.aes.doe.CA (Yves Pelletier)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Spectre & TT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.101755.777@cid.aes.doe.CA>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 10:17:55 GMT
- References: <1icdfqINNt3j@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1993Jan5.203916.22548@newshost.lanl.gov> <1993Jan6.095202.3344@news.unige.ch> <1993Jan8.152346.29269@cid.aes.doe.CA> <C0LFwz.6Dx@news.rich.bnr.ca> <1993Jan11.093126.1712@news.unige.ch>
- Sender: news@cid.aes.doe.CA (Network News)
- Reply-To: afsfpel@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA (Yves Pelletier)
- Organization: Environment Canada
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- In article <1993Jan11.093126.1712@news.unige.ch>, mike@medsun.unige.ch
- (michel morris) writes:
- |> 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:
- |> >
- |> > > 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.
- |> >
- |> > 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?
- |>
- |> Mike M.
- |>
- |>
- |>
-
- Sorry to hear the "voodoo" failed to work on your machine. The DD floppy
- has to be accessed in Atari mode, just prior to launching Spectre.
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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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