This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Optical Disk
Message #42153
Okay SCSI Experts ! I wonder if any of you gurus out there know anything about the RICOH 5030e optical disk. Basically, I've obtained this device but there are a few things I don't know. Firstly, what type of optical disk does it use ? Is it WORM or is…
Mat ! There are a few of us in the UK !!!! Steve Gardiner – Sipping afternoon tea in London
Carl, Amigaguide is available in the Amigauser forum on CIS. I'm not sure which library it's in but it's there somewhere. The compressed file contains pretty much all you need to run it, I think and I think it works under 1.3 (tsk! should've upgraded by now) Hope this is…
Stephen, Robert is correct, the Apple Macintosh will only read 1.44 MS-DOS formatted diskettes. The reason is probably something to do with the disk encoding schemes used (MFM, GCR etc) which is usually hardware based. (However this is not true of Amiga drives which are dumb drives capable of doing…
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PC bad sectors?
Message #41504
John, There is a way of unmarking bad sectors to make them good, but it's only recommended if you can guarantee the sectors are bad. Norton Utilities v7.0 (and I presume v8.x) will as well, have a program called DISKTOOL (I think) which allows you to mark sectors as good…
Floptical disk
Message #40985
Here's one for you mountlist experts, I have an Insite Floptical disk and a GVP HC8+ SCSI controller, and I want to know how to setup the drive. What's required is a mountlist entry using the GVP scsi driver, and enabling me to access a 21mb floptical. However, here's the…
#A2620 on 2.04 A2000
Message #132270
I've just bought a second-user (read someone else's cast-off) CBM A2620 (the big C='s 68020 accelerator) as a cheap upgrade for my A2000, and to stave off upgrading to a A4000/40 'cos I know that those b'stards at Commodore will release a fantastic new Amiga the week following me buying…