512 Byte sectors wanted on Miniscribe Model 2012

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From: Walter A. Koziarz
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 1990 14:09

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I'm at a loss to explain it, but I can't seem to convince 'PREP' to format this
disk with 512 byte sectors (alledgedly, the default).  It keeps forcing 1024
byte sectors on me, without me issuing the '/k' switch.  I have PREPped the
drive in a z150 in an attempt to TOTALLY corrupt the system-parameters area on
the disk.  Then re-ran z100 PREP.  Same result!  1024 byte sectors (implies
4096 byte clusters!).  Is there anyone who has an idea on this??

Btw, I used the same PREP executable on this drive as I used on my home machine
(home machine HAS 512 byte sectors and 2048 byte clusters).

Walt K.

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