Hi I have a 738 myself with the same problem. O replaced my svi drive with a pc drive and disk formatted on this drive works fin on the pc, even 360k singel sided! I think the svi dirves alignment is out, that why it can read itself but the pc can't
JP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jyri Hovila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jorge Vidal Wulff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 2:03 AM Subject: Re[2]: [MSX] Problem reading SVI 738 with PC (and vice-versa) > Hi again! > > JVW> maybe the SVI's drive is busted... > > That's what I've began to fear myself too. But the drive *does* work ok > by itself -- I mean it can read disks which have been formatted and > written to by itself. > > I opened the SVI in the hope that the internal drive would have been > similar enough to modern 3.5" drives so I could have changed it myself, > but the drive appears to be quite unique. =I > > By the way, my SVI always formats only one side of a disk, thus creating > 360 kbyte disks. I have a faint recollection of creating 720 kbyte disks > with my earlier SVI 738, and I don't think it would have been a "tuned > up" version. My current 738 doesn't even ask if I want to format one or > two sides of the disk, it only asks do I want to format disk in drive A > or drive B. Could this have anything to do with the problem? Should I be > able to format double sided disks with a standard SVI 738? > > Thanks in advance, again! =) > > - Jyri > > _______________________________________________ > MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.487 / Virus Database: 286 - Release Date: 01/06/2003 _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
