Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Ordania-DM
From: Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: More on SIO
Message-ID: <17757@cup.portal.com>
Date: 29 Apr 89 23:08:10 GMT
References: <38936@bbn.COM> <4779@umd5.umd.edu>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Lines: 16


  RE: XF551 & Spartados, etc

   The XF551 when first turned on pretends that it is a single sided single 
density (SSSS) disk.  IT doesn't care what disk you put it, it retains that 
configuration until the computer access the drive; at that time, it 
reconfigures for the correct type of disk that is inserted.  Unfortunately, 
SpartaDos thinks the drive is still SSSS when actually it is a DSDD disk.  
This causes the boot error, but if you hit reset it will boot correctly.  This
may even happen with DOS XE, but since I can't see a reason to use it, I don't
know for sure.


 
Ordania-DM
 @cup.portal.com