Author: Marout Yasuo Borms (ip565f6731.direct-adsl.nl)
Date: 04-29-2007 21:50
hello,
I recently decided to pick up my old 800XL.
Browsing several 2nd hand trade sites I obtained several add-ons.
Problem: I have 2 1050's and a XF551 drive.
My 800XL is a Rev C PAL machine
The XF551 I obtained 10 years ago new in box.
Back then the machine refused to boot using the DOS XE 1.0 that came with the XF551.
Recently I aquired another original DOS XE disk.
Both DOS XE's boot when loaded into a 1050. but cause BOOT ERROR when loaded in the XF551
Once Booted, I can access the XF551. But it won't format disks.
It will Read disks formatted with DOS 2, 2.5 or DOS XE on a 1050. But it won't format any disks.
I've tried all formats (S/M/D/XF)
S,D and XF all give 707 free sectors on the 1050, M gives 1011 sectors. The disks are 360k soft sector disks from the PC.
What am I doing wrong?
Regards,
marout
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