Date   : Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:25:47 +0100
From   : hideki.adam@... (adam colley)
Subject: Disk fault 0C at 00/00

Hihi

On 25/04/2008, Anders Carlsson <anders.carlsson@...> wrote:
>  However, any SSD image I try to write bails out after half the number of
>  tracks: if I choose 40 track format it gets errors on the 21st cylinder;
>  if I use 80 tracks the errors occur on the 42nd cylinder. I will
>  investigate this later and perhaps try other operating systems and
>  software. It could be the 5.25" drive in the PC that is not perfect,
>  but shouldn't it bail out at a much earlier stage?

That sounds to me like you have a 360K 5.25" drive in your PC but are
trying to use it as a 1.2MB 5.25" drive...

if the drive is 360K as I suspect, then it's a 40 track drive and
needs to be set as such in BIOS (and will obviously only write 40
track disks)

(A 40 track drive set as an 80 would fail at around track 41-44
writing an 80 track disk as it hit the end or 21-23 on a 40 track disk
as it would double step and hit the end in half the time...)

-- 
Hideki.Adam