Date   : Sun, 10 Apr 1988 23:13:46 PDT
From   : rzh@freedom.llnl.gov (Roger H. Hanscom (415) 423-0441)
Subject: Reading CP/M Discs with Media Master

I've not had much experience with other multi-format disk reading programs
(such as Uniform), but Media Master is a TURKEY!  I worked for a guy who
purchased it to transfer some old CP/M Wordstar files to an IBM PC.  He had
trouble with it and asked me to try it out.  I had some old Osborne diskettes
that it refused to read (I can do sector level reads on them with a Versafloppy
controller).  It made a good try with some Columbia Data 964?? diskettes.  The
directory came up but with all the wrong file sizes.  Copies of the files would
not run with their CP/M emulator.  It will not format Cromemco CDOS DS/DD
5 1/4"
so that I can write to them, and it will not read 5 1/4" CDOS diskettes created
on the Cromemco.  When I called the number that is on the Media Master docs.,
they were not only non-helpful, they were insulting ("your diskettes are bad"
(they weren't)...."you don't know what you're doing"...etc.).  I have yet to
find a format that works with their program besides standard MS-DOS.  You
might want to try it only as a last resort, and/or try it out on the format
you're interested in reading BEFORE you buy it.  As far as I'm concerned, it
isn't even worth the cost of a blank diskette to copy it on!

Roger Hanscom
rzh%freedom.llnl.gov@lll-lcc.llnl.gov


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