[Bug] Loading a flux IBM 360k image changes to TI-99/4A

[Thraka]

When I select IBM 360k as the image type, save the flux image, and then reload the file back into the imager tool, the combo box changes to TI-99/4A.

I still wrote to a floppy with this setting but the disk does come out as bad.

[admin]

They are the same format, so the disk type won't matter. You might check the settings of the drive (high density vs. low density). A drive to drive copy should also work just fine, but if the jumpers are backwards that won't work either.

[Thraka]

Kind of off topic I guess...

The drive supports 1.2mb, I guess I should be picking the max the drive supports? Not the actual size of the floppy itself? I'm a bit new to this stuff. I'm trying to copy my Kings Quest 3 disks, which seem to be 360k in size (using DIR on MS-DOS and adding up file sizes plus freespace). I tried using DS DD floppies but the game install always crashes on the same file saying it cannot find the data for the file. I tried a SS DD floppy from my C64 and that copied fine but when I ran the game, it crashed saying it couldn't read data from the HD (as if the game was corrupted) I then tried another 3 SS DD floppies but all had the same error with the same file as the DS DD floppy.

Now, I reimaged the flux file from the original floppy using IBM 720k mode even though it is a 5.25 disk, so ending at track 79 H1 and wrote them back to the SS DD floppies and they worked perfectly. I then tried writing to a DS DD floppy and that too worked.

I'm not sure what my mental disconnect is with this.

[admin]

Ah, yes. 1.2MB drives use tracks 0-79. I will add a 1.2MB setting.

[Thraka]

So just to be clear, the drive I'm using supports HD (1.2MB) floppies, therefore, it reads all 360k disks as 80 tracks. If I had a pure 360k disk drive, it would be reading all 360k disks as 40 tracks?

[admin]

You could use the C64 setting to skip every other track (half tracks) to reduce the size of the file, but it's not necessary.

A 40 track drive would read just the full tracks.