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From: dbb@panther.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Dice Blackboard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: GCR floopy drive problem
Message-ID: <1477@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 91 23:23:42 GMT
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I've got a question for all of you GCR experts out there.  I've been having a
major problem with formatting, reading, and writing of mac disks.  Whether I'm
in mac mode or using the format option in the spectre main menu, it always 
fails.  Formatting in spectre format works, but mac format doesn't. Reading
and writing to mac disks formatted on another machine is also a problem.  Some
work while others are unreadable or writable.  Even when it does successfully
read and write, which isn't often, it seems to be struggling along and having
problems.  Yes, I have run the GCRtest on my drive and the mac tests fail
miserably. Has anyone had this problem, and if so what's causing it?  My 
floppy drive is running at 301 R.P.M.'s.  Could there be a problem with the 
drive speed causing this? I had version 2.65C and have recently received 3.0.
The problem is the same on both versions. My system is a mega 2ST with an 
internal double sided drive. I also know about the problem with some mega 2st
machines, but the symptoms listed in the manual don't seem to fit the problem
I'm having.  I would sure appreciate any insight to this problem, because I'm
clueless. Thanks.
 
                                   Mark Starvaggi
                                   (email address: ms@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu) or
                                   ( ''      ''  : ms@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu )