Date : Sun, 27 May 2001 18:50:55 +0100
From : Graham Bisset <bbc@...>
Subject: Re: Opus Challenger eprom version > 1.01?
At 10:39 AM 5/25/01 +0100, you wrote:
>>===== Original Message From "W.H.Scholten" <wouter.scholten@...>
====
>>Possibly there was more, not sure; I've only recently written the
>>problems down as I've got an eprom writer/eraser now so I can actually
>>write a new one...
>
>One bug is that formatting a 40 track disk results in an 80 track disk, just
>with only the first 40 tracks formatted. needless to say this does not
work in
>a real 40 track drive! To fix this you must do a *OPT8,1 before
formatting. On
>my drive at least you can hear the difference.
Actually thats documented in the manual, so its more of a "feature". The
command *4080 <setting> "sets the filing system so that 40-track discs may
be used with an 80 track drive".
:-)