Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Solved.
On Sunday 15 January 2017 20:29:49 John Darrah wrote:
> On 1/15/2017 3:26 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > And any drive thats 10 years old & maybe even some newer ones are
> > desperately in need of being pulled out, and any covers that are
> > blocking good access to the carriage drive screw, need to be
> > uncovered for a serious cleaning with alcohol or even acetone so
> > that no debris or solidified grease can be found on the screw,
> > followed by a pebble of lithium chassis grease worked back into the
> > groove of the screw. Put it back together & back into the computer.
> > It the q-tip isn't too dirty, wipe a thin film of grease on the
> > rails the head carriage slides on, but more likely it would get a
> > fresh & some clean grease. It might work another for another ten
> > years!
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> Just curious if you looked at the 'ufiformat' command.
>
> -- john
No John, I haven't, not having seen that word on screen before.
And since I've better ways of doing that for the last 3 or 4 years,
called Drivewire, which is far more capable than a floppy based
sneakernet, I probably won't look it up. To demo the diff, if I
substitute the drivewire version of the Nitros9 p module while dw is
running on this machine, I have a b&w laser printer sitting here I use
for all my b&w printing needs, spits out a file sent to /p on the coco3,
this cheap brother printer spits it out at 19 pages a minute. The
fastest printer I ever had connected to it in the last 30 years, was a
Oki 24 pinner that could do a bit over a page a minute, feeding it from
a parport plugged into the coco3.
It does a decent imitation of a floppy drive, moving data to/from a file
on this linux boxes hard drive, at about the same speed as a standard
density floppy drive on the coco3.
Many more things it can do as the protocol itself has as high as 64
independent data channels.
Whats not to like?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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