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From: mjv@brownvm.brown.edu (Marshall Vale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Spectre GCR writing at 8 sectors/track.
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Date: 5 Oct 90 20:15:53 GMT
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In article <1624@kielo.uta.fi> jackin@vehka.uta.fi (Markku M{enp{{) writes:
> Now for a weird problem: My diskdrive seems to have some trouble
> writing at 8 sectors/track with GCR.
[stuff]
> Has anybody had similar problems ? Do I need to change my DD :-(

 Yup, me too.  Supposedly, this is not that an uncommon problem for
some Mega2s. Their internal drives just don't seem to work. This problem
is that there is too much electical noise inside the computer that it
is drowning out the GCR info. Dave's solution is to wrap the cables and
the drive in some sort of shielding material and ground it. This doesn't
work for me :-(  But I do have an external that, although it is really
loud, works like a charm :-)

Marshall

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