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| Title: | Atari ST, TT, & Falcon |
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting! |
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON |
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| Created: | Mon Apr 04 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1433 |
| Total number of notes: | 10312 |
675.0. "ST Format disk funnies" by COMICS::DSMMGR () Tue Nov 21 1989 07:59
I don't know if what I am about to say is true, or just a horrible
coincidence, but I thought it worth mentioning...just in case.
I regularly buy ST Format which I consider a good, well balanced
and informative magazine and also I get a 'free' disk full of goodies.
The disk is in a funny format in as much that there is a folder
on it called 'sidetwo' which when double-clicked allows you to acess
info stored on the other side of the disk. So far so good.
Well I decided that there was a wonderful little utility on side
two that I wanted on my system diskette and so I opened the disk
in drive A, double clicked to side two and simply dragged the desired
program to my system disk which I'd opened as drive B. The result
was a trashed system disk which, after the copy showed nothing but
the entire contents of sidetwo despite the fact that I only dragged
one item. On trying to access any of the items now (erroneously)
on disk B the system crashed.
I accept full responsibility for the mess up, and it may just have
been a glitch, but my gut says it was something to do with the funny
format of disk A.
Therefore, take care when copying from these disks and perhaps use
a RAM disk as an itermediate device.
Jonathan
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| 675.1 | The way it is... | KERNEL::TAGGARTN | | Tue Nov 21 1989 15:31 | 14 |
| Hi Jonathan!
I have also had problems using these free disks - well the first
one. Having accessed side B I noticed some kind of corruption
Side A was ok before I accessed B but it too refused to load
after Side B was corrupted.
There was some good stuff on the disk so I posted the disk complete
with a grovelling letter for a new disk and they posted one back.
Now I am EXTRA careful with these disks!!!
Nicole
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| 675.2 | Hidi format is similiar and used by STart. | STAR::PARKE | You're a surgeon, not Jack the Ripper | Wed Nov 22 1989 00:10 | 14 |
| STart magazine has started using a "double single" sided format called
Hidi, designed by one of their editors and Dave Small. They mostly put
the larger sources and things on the off side with the compressed
programs and so forth accessible from a single sided drive.
So far, I have not had a problem with the first two that they have sent
(I have a double sided drive). This gets twice as much stuff on the
disk and still keeps part of the disk useable for the older single
sided machines. "All you need to get the other side is a friend with a
double sided drive if you don't have one" as they say.
Bill
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