Date   : Sat, 01 Feb 1997 07:29:10 +0000
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: Corrupted Discs

In message <199701312255.WAA17333@...>, James Sargent
<JSARGENT@...> writes
>Well, I booted up the Master this evening for the first time in a *long* time 
>to find it had suffered severe amnesia of the CMOS RAM - time for a new 
>battery I think. 
> 
>More seriously, I've found two software discs have become unreadable - they 
>will not verify past track 01 (in both cases).  This is really a request for 
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This is a classic symptom of having your 40/80 switch wrong.

Also beware - Acorn used a weird format for some of their discs,
intended to make them readable on both 40T and 80T drives.  These discs
won't verify.

-- 
Mike Tomlinson
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sorry I can't come right now, please leave a message."