On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 3:05 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk <
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> On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Geoffrey Oltmans wrote:
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>> Speaking of I've got a couple of old MFM drives (10 and 20 MB of a
>> variety whose name and model #'s escape me, I wanna say Tandon, but not
>> sure)
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Geoffrey Oltmans wrote:
Speaking of I've got a couple of old MFM drives (10 and 20 MB of a
variety whose name and model #'s escape me, I wanna say Tandon, but not
sure). They seem to work fine when I initially format and partition, but as
they run for a while, they get mo
: formatting MFM drives on a
IBM PC)
prolly a failing ic of some sort?
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Geoffrey Oltmans via cctalk <
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> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
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prolly a failing ic of some sort?
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Geoffrey Oltmans via cctalk <
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> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> > On 9/28/17 7:38 AM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:
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> > > What
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk <
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> On 9/28/17 7:38 AM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:
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> > What is it that usually fails when the drive can't read the servo info?
> The data on the platter, or?
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> I've never dug that far into it beyond fidd
