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- From: soudan@boole (SOUDAN sebastien)
- Subject: Re: 3.5" drive fine at HD, won't format DD
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- Organization: University of Grenoble (France)
- References: <1992Nov16.162701.24207@hemlock.cray.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:07:24 GMT
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- rice@cray.com (Jonathan Rice) writes:
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- >I have a problem with my Sony MPF120-K0 3.5" diskette drive. It reads,
- >writes, and formats 1.44MB (HD) diskettes without a hitch. It will also read
- >*and write* 720KB (DD) diskettes with perfect ease. However, it will not
- >*format* a 720KB diskette.
-
- >Symptom: invalid media, track 0 bad.
-
-
- >--
- >Jonathan C. Rice | rice@zizania.cray.com | ...uunet!cray!rice
- I have the same problem, with a Amiga and a BridgeBoard(AT hard
- emulation card). I think it's a problem of not total compatibility with
- the bios. For me, it works: I only have to try a second time to format:
- just after the error message "invalid track0", the format command
- asks "another disk to format?" I only type "y" and this second time
- it works!. (If the format command of your dos doesn't ask to try again,
- type format again). I hope this will works for you too.
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