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From: kreme@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Name? I have no name. My only name is Kreme.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Universal Disk contoller and 400k drives
Message-ID: <2054@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 88 06:16:16 GMT
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In article <8802212228.aa25943@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> CMDNESPG@UIAMVS.BITNET ("Steven E. Nelson") writes:
>Does anyone have any experience or suggestions for using Central
>Point's universal disk controller with Apple-Mac 400K disk drives?
>
>I'm having a great deal of trouble.  I've tried 3 controller boards,
>and over a dozen different drives.  Chinon 800k and Mac 800 external
>drives work fine, 400k drives cause many write errors and trashed
>blocks under Prodos (v1.4).  All 400k drives seem to read Ok, but
>a disk copy (using copyiiplus v7.4) gives 1 or more write errors
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Try using V8.0 or higher.  If this fails, call CPS and ask them about it.  They
will probably be familiar with the problem.



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