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- From: chsieh@Ingres.COM (Chemin Hsieh)
- Subject: Re: HD floppy on A3000 problems
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.193736.21304@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Reply-To: chsieh@Ingres.COM (Chemin Hsieh)
- Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
- References: <llucp7INNre@news.bbn.com> <1993Jan22.173616.22087@enea.se>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 19:37:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.173616.22087@enea.se> tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
- >
- >If you know someone with an PClone or a Mac with HD drives, try to
- >format the disk on one of those machines.
- >
- >If I don't recall things wrong, it was (is) a bug in AmigaDOS.
- >Changing between DD and HD diskettes screws things up, not just for
- >formatting. I beleive the SetPatch that comes with WB2.1 corrects
- >this. These statements are, however, nothing more than (educated?)
- >guesses. I have a very fuzzy memory of it all. I run WB3.0 and have
- >no problems with my HD drive.
- >
- Thanks to all who responded. It appears that I need a patch for
- trackdisk.device that comes in later versions of the OS. Is there
- some utility available from an ftp site (someone mentioned HDfixer,
- but wuarchive didn't have it) that will do this? Or must I order
- WB2.1 (or WB3.0 -- is this even available in the states unbundled from
- an AGA machine?)?
-
- Matt
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