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From: conklin@eecae.UUCP (Terry Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: XF551 Drive <> Flight Sim II incompatible
Message-ID: <12295@eecae.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 88 16:11:25 GMT
References: <8810030427.AA27417@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <4178@bsu-cs.UUCP> <4109@umd5.umd.edu>
Reply-To: conklin@eecae.UUCP (Terry Conklin)
Organization: Michigan State University, ERDL
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A word of warning to you folks considering a purchase of the XF551 and
or Flight Simulator II from Sublogic. These two products are NOT 
compatible. I have tried multiple copies of Flight Sim II (fortunately,
friends have it too) and my XF551 simply wont boot them. It's not just
a matter of booting the disks. Switching back to my 810 drive, they (of
course) work just fine.
 
If I boot with the 810, and then switch drives, it will fail anyhow, on the
next disk access.

 
It's my impression that this has something to do with a protection scheme on
the disk. Being that my 810 has trouble reading the high tracks on diskettes
(which is why I wanted a decent drive in the first place) I _need_ to be able
to use my good drive.

 
Being as I started flight school last week, I'm rather miffed.

I have yet to call Sublogic about the problem. But I will.

 
Terry Conklin
{msudoc|frith|eecae}!conklin
conklin@egr.msu.edu
The Club (517) 372-3131