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

Yes this might work, but: you must make sure that you have a FAT32 partition
on your harddisk to store the data. A NTFS partition cannot be accessed from
the floppy booted system. And the partition should not be compressed unsless
you are prepared to cope with rather complicated measures.

Another idea is to install a plain DOS partition with enough space for the
data as a boot option. For this you could also use freeDOS I guess.

Hans

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Wahl [mailto:steve@...]
Sent: Mittwoch, 8. Oktober 2003 16:28
To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Digest Number 386


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


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