[Coco] RETRIEVING Disk Images

Robert Gault robert.gault at worldnet.att.net
Wed Feb 15 20:29:17 EST 2006


Have you tried taking blank disks, use DSKINI.EXE on the PC to format them, 
backing up the problem disks to the fresh disks, and then using RETRIEVE?

Torsten Dittel wrote:
> I've just been able to RETRIEVE about 66% of the disk images with the
> "can't read the first sector" problem: I connected the TEAC FD55-E
> drive, used Omnidisk the way I described before (just changed the "rate"
> parameter from "2" to "1" because the drive is spinning with 360 instead
> of 300 RPM (or vice versa? Doesn't matter...) and adjusted the drive's
> speed to maximum. For unknown reasons my theory to slow it down didn't
> work (I wanted to make the track header "longer" that way), any ideas
> welcomed. I still think the Catweasel MK4 will be the best solution.
> Regards,
> Torsten
> 
> 



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