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From: drp9500@ultb.isc.rit.edu (D.R. Paradis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Weirdness with High Density drives and the ST
Message-ID: <2112@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 90 20:38:48 GMT
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Reply-To: drp9500@ultb.isc.rit.edu (D.R. Paradis )
Organization: Information Systems and Computing @ RIT, Rochester, New York
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I have this problem with the 5 1/4" drive I have hooked up to
mine....(also with the 3 1/2")

  It appears that if the ST accesses the disk at all that the boot
sector gets either rewritten or corrupted in some way that the IBM (PC
Ditto) can't read.

  I correect this by using DC Format and re writing an IBM boot sector
to the disk and it reads fine. (I have to do this more on the 3 1/2"
than the 5 1/4")

  Sure is a pain in the ass fix but it works for now.....

                     Bob