From: Ethan Dicks (ethan.dicks_at_gmail.com)
Date: 2007-05-15 00:45:04
On 5/14/07, Mark Zablocki <personable85@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> The only information on the box reads:
>
> MODEL 47-7501 doubles sided / double density soft sectored, cert. 40 tracks
>
> There is no 48 tpi DD, 96 tpi DD or 96 tpi HD listed.
Check their website...
http://www.athana.com/html/diskette.html
Their box 47-7501 is listed as "5.25& Inch Diskettes DD (Double Sided,
Double Density), Unformatted, 48 TPI (Soft Sector), ATHANA Box"
What you want is 47-8701 or the 47-8801. The 8050 is single sided, so
you only need 47-8701s, but 47-8802 will work just fine, too. The
only issue is if they are out of stock of single-sided media or if
the double-sided media costs lots more.
Note the difference in the description from above to this - "5.25 Inch
Diskettes SSDD (Single Sided, Double Density), Unformatted, 96 TPI
(Soft Sector), ATHANA Box"
The disks you have will work fine in 2040s, 3040s, 4040s, 2031s,
1540s, 1541s, etc. - about 170K per floppy. What you need has about
twice the track density of that (one side of an 8050 disk holds about
500K, a double-sided 8250 holds nearly 1MB).
While you _might_ not be having media problems, I think it's best to
start with something you know should work than guess might work.
Fewer variables to juggle.
-ethan
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