| N8 SBC 3.5" Floppy Support [message #9392] |
Wed, 17 November 2021 23:24  |
drj113
Messages: 6
Registered: July 2017
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Hi Everybody,
I am really enjoying playing with my newest favourite little N8 machine (Shhh - Don't tell my Pulsar Little Big Board).
SD Card support Just works, and its being really reliable.
I have an interesting problem with the Floppy Disk.
I am using a 3/5" FDD with 1.44Mb disks. I can format it with FDU, but when I attempt to formal at 1.44Mb, I see the following when I format a track:
===== N8 ==============<< FDU MAIN MENU >>======================
(S)ETUP: UNIT=00 MEDIA=1.44MB MODE=POLL TRACE=00
------------------------------------------------------------ ----
(R)EAD (W)RITE (F)ORMAT (V)ERIFY
(I)NIT BUFFER (D)UMP BUFFER FDC (C)MDS E(X)IT
=== OPTION ===> FORMAT (T)RACK, (D)ISK ===> TRACK
ENTER TRACK [00-4F] (00):
ENTER HEAD [00-01] (00):
ENTER INTERLEAVE [01-12] (02):
RESET DRIVE...
PROGRESS: TRACK=00 HEAD=00 SECTOR=01
No errors appear
But when I attempt to verify, I see this:
===== N8 ==============<< FDU MAIN MENU >>======================
(S)ETUP: UNIT=00 MEDIA=1.44MB MODE=POLL TRACE=00
------------------------------------------------------------ ----
(R)EAD (W)RITE (F)ORMAT (V)ERIFY
(I)NIT BUFFER (D)UMP BUFFER FDC (C)MDS E(X)IT
=== OPTION ===> VERIFY (S)ECTOR, (T)RACK, (D)ISK, (R)ANDOM ===> TRACK
ENTER TRACK [00-4F] (00): 00
ENTER HEAD [00-01] (00):
PROGRESS: TRACK=00 HEAD=00 SECTOR=01
DATA MISMATCH AT 0000
CONTINUE? (A)BORT, (R)ETRY, (I)GNORE ===>
I have tried multiple media with no success.
Interestingly, if I lie and set the drive to be a 5.25" HD drive, I format and verify with no errors. I can copy a heap of files with PIP, but I can't SYSGEN the resulting disk.
If anybody has any advice it would be very much appreciated.
Doug
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