From: duperval@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Laurent Duperval) Subject: Re: rawrite + 1.2Mb drive: problems Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1992 03:34:36 GMT
In article <1992Sep16.163436.12910@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> sjmadsen@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Steve Madsen) writes:
>
> Greetings.. I'm having some problems getting rawrite to correctly
>write my rootimage to a 1.2Mb drive. The disk has been formatted, rawrite
>correctly reports 15 sectors/track, however I don't see it writing more than 13
>or 14 at the most. I end up getting an "address mark not found" when rawrite
>tries to write to track 80, so I'm thinking that something is wrong. The
>rawrite version is 1.2.
>
> Before I start modifying rawrite.c and recompiling it, can anyone tell
>me if I'm doing something wrong? I didn't notice anything in the FAQ file
>about this, so I thought I'd try a post. If you can help, please email me; I
>don't read this group often.
>
Too bad, you really should. I'm posting because I think that this
information may be useful for other people as well.
I had the same behavior under rawrite and rawrite2. I never understood
what the problem was. So disks were written to properly but others
didn't get the program to register 15 sectors/track.
I ran it under DR-DOS 6.0 if that's any help to anyone. The only way I
could fix it was to go in the routine that returns the number of
sectors/track and force it to return 15 for Drive A. I haven't tried it
with 3.5" drives so I can't say anything about them.
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