Date   : Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:33:15 -0500
From   : jules.richardson99@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: Disk fault 0C at 00/00

adam colley wrote:
> 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...

That was my thought, too - whatever's being used to write the disk images is 
probably reporting the track number within the disk image, not the current 
cylinder number of the drive, and is assuming an 80 cylinder drive rather than 
a 40 cylinder.

cheers

Jules