Rich Mellor wrote:
> Has anyone recent experience of using SMSQ/e on a Super Gold Card and
> Aurora with DD disks.
>
> I reformatted and reinstalled a customer's system over the weekend and
> although his Miracle ED disk drives worked fine under a JS ROM, when
> SMSQ/e v3.09 was installed (the last version I had) although you could
> read from DD disks, when you tried formatting them you got format failed
> (and a lot of noise as though the heads were not being controlled
> properly).
If they are Misubishi (likely) try flp_jiggle .
>
> If you tried writing to the disks, the disk activity light came on, but
> nothing was written and smsq/e hung (the original file if you were
> overwriting one was still there intact).
>
> I wonder if this goes back to an earlier bug which I reported a few years
> ago - namely in earlier SMSQ/e versions, you could boot up the system and
> FORMAT a DD disk without problems. However, use FLP_DENSITY D and try
> FORMAT and it failed.
>
> hmmm.....
>
Tony
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