Jyri Hovila wrote: > I also tried formatting the disk with Windows 2000, using the > /1 -switch to make the disk one-sided. Still no luck: this time > the SVI can't read the disk. [...and...] > By the way, my SVI always formats only one side of a disk, thus > creating 360 kbyte disks. I have a faint recollection of creating 720 > kbyte disks with my earlier SVI 738, and I don't think it would have > been a "tuned up" version. My current 738 doesn't even ask if I want > to format one or two sides of the disk, it only asks do I want to > format disk in drive A or drive B. Could this have anything to do > with the problem? Should I be able to format double sided disks with > a standard SVI 738?
As far as I know, Windows 2000 and Windows XP can't handle single-sided disks, and other versions don't always work either. So your previous SVI 738 apparantly being able to format double-sided would definately explain why those disks work and the current (single-sided) ones don't. About double-sided disks on an SVI 738: I don't know much about it, but if the drive itself is a DS one it might be that the diskrom (for some reason so unlikely I doubt this is the case :)) only supports single-sided disks. In that case you could replace the diskrom with one which supports DS disks. But I actually think in order to use DS disks you'd need to replace the drive aswell, maybe there's some information about that (pin layouts etc) on the internet (maybe the MSX F.A.Q.?). It would be quite a useful modification anyways, there aren't really a lot of games on SS disks anyways, are there? Most -if not all- Sunrise games are on DS disks, and so are SD Snatcher, Ys, Xak, Fray etc... Or maybe the SVI people put DS drives in their more recent SVI 738 models. Or the previous owner had a hardware guy replace the SS drive with a DS drive, it's quite a common mod, also happened a lot on the (also initially single-sided) Philips VG8235 computers. ~Grauw --- Ushiko-san! Kimi wa doushite, Ushiko-san nan da!! _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
