12-19-2013, 10:22 PM
I was trying to image a newly formatted 3.5" 1.44MB HD PC disk that I had dumped a couple of text files on just for testing. The image creation process seemed to go ok, using the Blind Mode, resulting in a 23MB image file, but writing it back failed.
When it got to track 54 (sorry, can't recall which head) it said "Missing track identifier! - Image file is corrupted!". Clicking OK made the window disappear, but the program locked up. None of the buttons would work, and the program had to be end-tasked. The disk was readable in my other floppy since the directory track and the track that had my small file on it made it ok, but if anything had been using track 54> would have been lost.
Tried again with the same disk after formatting and putting some files on, and it failed writing track 55 head 0 with the same error. Then tried writing this same image to another disk, same error at same spot.
So it looks like there's some issue with creating 1.44MB images. BTW, this is the beta 0.80 software.
When it got to track 54 (sorry, can't recall which head) it said "Missing track identifier! - Image file is corrupted!". Clicking OK made the window disappear, but the program locked up. None of the buttons would work, and the program had to be end-tasked. The disk was readable in my other floppy since the directory track and the track that had my small file on it made it ok, but if anything had been using track 54> would have been lost.
Tried again with the same disk after formatting and putting some files on, and it failed writing track 55 head 0 with the same error. Then tried writing this same image to another disk, same error at same spot.
So it looks like there's some issue with creating 1.44MB images. BTW, this is the beta 0.80 software.