Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!world!unixland!asgardia From: asgardia@unixland.uucp (Craig Rothman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: 3.5" Disk Drive for 8-bit Message-ID: Date: 27 Feb 91 08:05:57 GMT References: <1991Feb25.072510.5024@world.std.com> Sender: bbs@unixland.uucp (Waffle BBS) Organization: The Think_Tank BBS & Public-Access Unix Lines: 13 bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum) writes: > What DOS are you using? Atari sold a lot of XF551s with DOS 2.5, which > treated the drive as if it were just a 1050. The rest were sold with DOS XE, > which recognizes the drive as DSDD, but is incompatible with a lot > of other programs. Either Mydos, Spartados, or Spartados-X will work with > the 551 in DSDD mode. I use Spartados, and I was using the correct format. I had someone who owned a xf551 over here to check it out and its the drive. THe previous owner tinkered with it or something. It wont do DD on either side. I suspect upgrading the drive will solve it.