> Can anyone tell me why Samdisk will not work with my PC. > I have a 386 x 16mhz laptop and Samdisk works perfectly on that. > I've had various flavours of PC .. 486 DX2 66 Samdisk would not [snip]
Yep. It's because samdisk tries to read tracks 10 sectors at a time (reasonable enough, since sam disks have 10 sectors per track). *Newer* BIOSes, however, being indoctrinated (and lazy), assume that everyone is going to be using MS-DOS format disks which only have 9 sectors, and therefore trying to read 10 is an error. Honest. You don't really want to do that. (An attitude I also dislike about the Mac, to drag that into it <grin>) The way around it is to read 9 then the other separately, but it's easier to use a program which is already aware of the problem. ;) -- Paul ... I have it somewhere, and it does work. I regard it with irrational fear and a sense of shock. -- Tim Cook
