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From: vicc@unix.cie.rpi.edu (VICC Project (Rose))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 360k floppy
Message-ID: <1989Nov22.042602.15371@rpi.edu>
Date: 22 Nov 89 04:26:02 GMT
References: <1989Nov18.045347.26261@rpi.edu> <905@uhnix2.uh.edu>
Reply-To: vicc@unix.cie.rpi.edu.UUCP (VICC Project (Rose))
Organization: CIE, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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In article <905@uhnix2.uh.edu> uace0@uhnix2.UUCP writes:
>You can use DC FORMATTER to do the same thing.  Just write an executable boot
>sector to drive A: that has the set seek rate option enabled.  From the main
>menu, just set the seek rate to 6, then go to the executable boot sector
>menu.  Next select the set step rate option, and write out the boot sector to
>drive A:  Now when you boot of of drive A:, the step rate for drive B: will be
>set so you can read and write to the 5 1/4" drive.
>
>Of course, other boot sector programs can also be written at the same time from
>the DC FORMATTER executable boot menu.

I did use DC Formatter, that was what allowed me to read the floppy on
the ST. It will not write however (except occaisionally it will write
the directory sector). It is a QUME drive with only jumpers for the
drive select.

--
Frank Filz
Center For Integrated Electronics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
vicc@unix.cie.rpi.edu