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Subject: what disk for an 80tk ds dd Tandon TM101-4 drive
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Date: 31 Jul 90 17:47:44 GMT
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> > INFO-CPM Digest V90 #123
> > What disk for an 80tk ds dd Tandon TM101-4 drive
> >Well, the subject about says it all.  I would like to know where I can get
> >disks which will work in my 96tpi 80tk ds dd Tandon TM101-4 drives which
> >Montezuma Micro CP/M will format to 820K.  I just bought a box of Kodak MD"-H
> >disks which are rated at 96tpi, but they do not format, every track fails
> >the verify pass.  These disks are made for high density drives (1.2Meg).
> >
> >In the past, I have found Radio Shack 80tk 5.25" disks to work well, and also
> >some brands of 48tpi disks.  What is different about the high density disks
> >that they will not work properly on my drives?
>
> Lance Tagliapietra   ucslct@uwplatt.edu or ucslct@uwplatt.bitnet

HI,

   I started using the 80tk 5.25" drives about 4 or 5 years ago, when a friend
  of mine and I bought a pair, just tto see if they would work...
  We first used them with Newdos/80, Dosplus, and then finally Montezuma Micro..

  We used regular 48tpi disks, and the drives never really complained...
  Generic ones are probably the best...not to put anyone down...
  Note:  if you get bad tracks after formatting with MM CP/M, you can lock out
        the bad tracks with the "findbad" program....and you normally just get
        a handful of bad tracks.

    the only way you can really go wrong with the drive is trying to write a
  another format with it, such as a 40 trk format, you can read them fine, but
  it is not recommended to write to them also...  You overlay every other track
  in a sense in other to be able to write the lesser format and it probably
  won't do it correctly after a time, or who knows what else could happen....
    Already lost one drive because of that....it's like it just slowly went out
    of alignment....

 later dude...
 A 2...
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