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Atari 800XL going into "self test" when pressing "Option" while powering up


bullmuscle

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For whatever the reason, it seems to work. That's good enough for most folks....

 

I wonder if a disk that's failing format like that gets kryofluxed.scp'd and them formatted under 3, kryo etc. and then finally formatted again with 2.xx, kryo etc. and then a compare is done if it would show why in the stream.... it should, but the lack of index hole use make it tough tough tough to do...

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The only difference once the drive manages to successfully lay down the tracks is in which sectors get written out to form a blank filesystem, and there won't be many. In the case of DOS 3: boot sectors (also written by DOS 2.5), empty FAT and empty directory.

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