Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 02:04:19PM -0000, Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> You should be aware that programs like this accessing 720k floppies
> (formatted with 800k by using 10 sectors per track) cannot be used under NT,
> w2k, or XP (i.e. anything NT based). Even under Win98 (and I guess it would
> be the same for Win95 and Me) you have to follow the following procedure:
> press CTRL while booting Windows to get into the extended start menu and
> choose 'Command Prompt' (or similar, I can't tell the wording 'cause I got a
> German system - but it should be option 5). Then you get a 'clean' DOS
> environment which allows the program to write the disk properly. Opening a
> command prompt window or even 'restart in DOS mode' would fail: the program
> pretends to work, however it would write only 9 sectors per track... which
> leaves you with a messy disk.

If you've got a PC but only one of the NT-based operating systems, a
floppy boot of MS-DOS or freeDOS (www.freedos.org) or drdos
(www.drdos.com) ought to work.  [ Note: this is just a suggestion; I
haven't tried it personally. ]

--> Steve