Date   : Thu, 17 Oct 1991 09:12:53 PDT
From   : rzh@icf.llnl.gov (R. Hanscom)
Subject: Re: Media-Master

Joel Jacobsen ( jacobsen@brachot.jct.ac.il ) writes:

> I tried to format a diskette for my TeleVideo TS803, with Media-Master on
> some PC clone, but the TeleVideo can't read nor write them.

Not an uncommon problem.  Format the diskette on the native machine
and then write to it on the PC.  Media-Master is a piece of dog-meat
anyway --- use 22disk or Uniform.

The folks at Sydex (creators of 22disk) told me that the FDC chip
used in most PC's cannot read or write single density with sector
size of 128b.  Supposedly a flaw in the chip logic.  I have no way
to verify this, and just pass it along as a potential topic of
discussion.  Does the TeleVideo TS803 use SD 128b sectors anywhere
on a diskette????

        roger         icf!rzh@lll-winken.llnl.gov
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