Date   : Tue, 27 Oct 1992 15:03:52 GMT
From   : yale.edu!jvnc.net!gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!uknet!mucs!aek@yale-bulldog.arpa (Alan Knowles)
Subject: Re: 22disk entry wanted

In article <BwruHJ.Aqq@sci.kun.nl>, adridg@sci.kun.nl (Adriaan de Groot)
writes:
|> A while back I asked about copying files
|> from CP/M to MSDOS, and eight of you wrote
|> back 'use 22disk,' so I ftped it from
|> Berlin, and it's great. Thanks y'all.
|> 
|> SO -- could I ask someone (all eight of you?)
|> to Email me the relevant chunk of the file --
|> the disk parameters for an ICL model 35/36 or
|> an ICL Quattro (dunno if that's in the list) --
|> then, heck, I'd be eternally grateful.

I think you might have a little trouble with the ICL Quattro.
I vaguely remember when I tried it that the number of reserved tracks was
not an integer, so the directory started partway into a track. No software
I could find could cope with this.



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