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- From: beeker@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Kristan Bekus)
- Subject: Re: HD floppy on A3000 problems
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.054712.13705@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Keywords: HD floppy
- Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system)
- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <1993Jan21.182156.24018@pony.Ingres.COM> <llucp7INNre@news.bbn.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:47:12 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- In <llucp7INNre@news.bbn.com> leekil@bbn.com (Lee Kilpatrick) writes:
-
- >chsieh@Ingres.COM (Chemin Hsieh) writes:
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- >>I recently bought a HD floppy for my A3000. After changing the jumper
- >>on the motherboard and the jumper on the drive itself to be df1, the
- >>machine boots fine and both drives are accessible (the HD floppy and
- >>the regular LD one that came with the 3000). They both read, write,
- >>and format DSDD floppies fine. Now for the problem. I had bought
- >>HD floppies some time ago anticipating this purchase, and had formatted
- >>them with the LD drive. The new HD drive cannot read these disks,
- >>which is to be expected, as the drive detects the hole in the disk
- >>and expects high density, so it spins at half speed. But when I try
- >>to reformat such a disk, it either complains about bad sectors and
- >>aborts the format, or finishes (after stuttering on some tracks) but
- >>the disk is only 880K! What's up? I read in this group that you just
- >>format a disk and voila! It's 1.76M. Is this true (and therefore,
- >>I have a bad drive)? Or do I need to do something funky with a
- >>mountlist entry? Or does formatting an HD disk with an LD drive screw
- >>up the disk such that it can't be reformatted with an HD drive?
-
-
- >I have seen similar problems trying to format a disk on an IBM that
- >has been previously formatted on another machine, like an Amiga. This
- >was ot specifically a DD->HD change, but maybe a DD->DD change. I
- >thought it was just an IBM problerm, but maybe it is a common disk
- >drive anomaly. It doesn't seem like it should happen, at any rate.
- >When I did the same thing you were trying to do, going from DD->HD
- >with my floptical drive, it worked fine. My suggestion would be to
- >"blank" out the disks by rubbing a magnet around on the outside of the
- >case and then trying to format them. I suppose this is okay to do,
- >anyone know anything to the contrary?
-
- This may work, however I wouldn't do it. Your problem is most likely
- that you are running ks2.04 which has a bug in it regarding high desity
- drives. To fix the problem get a later version of setpatch or get a
- utility called hdfixer which should be available from wuarchive or
- amiga.physik. The problem only occurs after you use a high density drive
- in low density mode, and then try to use it in high density mode again.
- It will work fine if you only use high density disks.
-
- Chuggles
- Amiga Born a Champion -Yes I had a 1.2 machine.
-