Date   : Sun, 25 Sep 2005 09:48:41 +0100
From   : "A. J. Davis" <mail@...>
Subject: Re: Strange 51/4" drive fault

Checking the step rate is also a valuable thing to remember if you fit a 
3.5" drive to your Master.  Anything lower than 5 in the FDRIVE setting 
and it won't format all 80 tracks.


Helen & John Simpson wrote:

>Amazing! It works! That explains everything.
>
>I changed the setting myself when I fixed the CMOS battery, in an
>attempt to "tidy things up". I must have then used 80T disks for a while
>and so not noticed the problem. The problem arose when using some fairly
>old and dodgy 40T disks, so I naturally assumed the drive had gone
>wrong...
>
>It was Fdrive 7 actually, but I think that is the same as Fdrive 3 in
>respect of step rate. Fdrive 5 works fine.
>
>Moral: do not tinker with things that are working.
>
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