We've gotten around the formatting issue by formatting SSSD using ImageDisk on a regular PC (with a floppy controller that supports single density/FM, of course). If you want RX02 media there's an XXDP routine to upconvert RX01s to RX02s.
Thanks, Jonathan On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 12/16/2017 10:43 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Dec 2017, Aaron Jackson via cctalk wrote: > >> Well, would you believe it. It was the disks after all. I can't believe > >> they are all bad! > > > > I can believe it. > > Were they "bad"? > > Or just not what they were labelled as being? > > I suspect that they weren't formatted to the 3740 spec (26/128 FM). > ISTR that the RX02 doesn't have formatting abilities. > > The other possibility is that the disks were DS rather than SS > (different index aperture position). > > --Chuck > > >
