IBM?DISK?

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From: JOHN ZAFIRIS
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1988 18:30

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A friend recently had the following problem with his disk drive: it
would not read semi-standard (10 sector twisted by DCformat) atari disks and
would produce a bunch of heiroglyphics for file names etc.  When standard IBM
disks are used, they work fine.  This problem had not cropped up before and is
not associated with head allignment (which causes a similar problem on some
drives).  The drive seems to differenciate between Atari and IBM disks.  Is his
machine slowly turning into an IBM (dread!) clone?  Can this horrible fate be
altered or will he start to get INTERNAL STACK FAILURE notices and 64K boundary
problems?  Any explanation no matter how fanciful is welcome.           ...John

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