https://www.cbmstuff.com/forum/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:56:40 +0000 MyBB https://www.cbmstuff.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=694 Fri, 28 Feb 2020 13:54:11 -0500 Vipersan]]> https://www.cbmstuff.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=694 hope you can cure my stupidity on this one.
I recently aquired a large box of 'used' 720k floppies as used previously on Amiga computers.
Obviously I dont want to just use them before I've weeded out any damaged or unuseable disks.
Then I remembered seeing a Disk Media Test button in the utils section of SCP software.
Thats what I need I thought.
I've never used this before but appeared to be a good time to try it.
The floppies as I said are used but blank.
I tried at least 20 expecting some sort of write test ...then a read to confirm which are good.
Drive one selected which is the 3.5" unit in my 2 drive unit (drive 0 being a 5.25" )
But nothing runs ..the floppies dont spin up ..nothing happens at all ..just a fail message every time ?
The computer I'm using runs windows 7.
..and I have made many images previously of commercial Amiga game floppies in .scp ..so I know the unit/drive works ok.
What am I doing or _not_ doing that I should be.
kind regards
Evan aka VS
No doubt it is my stupidity for not understanding.]]> hope you can cure my stupidity on this one.
I recently aquired a large box of 'used' 720k floppies as used previously on Amiga computers.
Obviously I dont want to just use them before I've weeded out any damaged or unuseable disks.
Then I remembered seeing a Disk Media Test button in the utils section of SCP software.
Thats what I need I thought.
I've never used this before but appeared to be a good time to try it.
The floppies as I said are used but blank.
I tried at least 20 expecting some sort of write test ...then a read to confirm which are good.
Drive one selected which is the 3.5" unit in my 2 drive unit (drive 0 being a 5.25" )
But nothing runs ..the floppies dont spin up ..nothing happens at all ..just a fail message every time ?
The computer I'm using runs windows 7.
..and I have made many images previously of commercial Amiga game floppies in .scp ..so I know the unit/drive works ok.
What am I doing or _not_ doing that I should be.
kind regards
Evan aka VS
No doubt it is my stupidity for not understanding.]]> https://www.cbmstuff.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=582 Mon, 08 Oct 2018 18:23:43 -0400 SomeGuy]]> https://www.cbmstuff.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=582 https://www.cbmstuff.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=234 Mon, 29 Jun 2015 03:56:44 -0400 mightyframe]]> https://www.cbmstuff.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=234
I'm new to the SuperCard Pro, but I love it.  Jim, great work here.  I saw you at CommVEx last year, and just got one last week.

I'm wanting to take existing .imd files that are provided as disk images by someone else, and use the SuperCard Pro to write them to a fresh floppy.

Does the software allow a method to do this?

Here are the source .imd files.  http://bit.ly/1FJMQbr

I'm writing to Double-Density 5.25" floppies, formatted to 10 sectors per track.

Thanks!
-AJ]]>
I'm new to the SuperCard Pro, but I love it.  Jim, great work here.  I saw you at CommVEx last year, and just got one last week.

I'm wanting to take existing .imd files that are provided as disk images by someone else, and use the SuperCard Pro to write them to a fresh floppy.

Does the software allow a method to do this?

Here are the source .imd files.  http://bit.ly/1FJMQbr

I'm writing to Double-Density 5.25" floppies, formatted to 10 sectors per track.

Thanks!
-AJ]]> https://www.cbmstuff.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=180 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:33:29 -0400 Kris]]> https://www.cbmstuff.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=180
Is it possible to modify the soft so as to have the media test performed during erasing or automatically started after erasing disk ?
Thank you.

Regards]]>
Is it possible to modify the soft so as to have the media test performed during erasing or automatically started after erasing disk ?
Thank you.

Regards]]> https://www.cbmstuff.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=94 Sun, 02 Feb 2014 16:50:43 -0500 admin]]> https://www.cbmstuff.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=94
Use the media integrity test to determine if the floppy disks you are trying to copy on to are actually still good!

The max track utility lets you know just how far out your head will go.

The disk eraser writes a high frequency pattern that will completely wipe out any previous data pattern.

The alignment mode is handy if you are doing drive alignments. Once you put your alignment disk in the drive and start the alignment mode, you can use the Test Track slider to move the head to any track and select a side.

I am working on the other two utilities still.]]>
Use the media integrity test to determine if the floppy disks you are trying to copy on to are actually still good!

The max track utility lets you know just how far out your head will go.

The disk eraser writes a high frequency pattern that will completely wipe out any previous data pattern.

The alignment mode is handy if you are doing drive alignments. Once you put your alignment disk in the drive and start the alignment mode, you can use the Test Track slider to move the head to any track and select a side.

I am working on the other two utilities still.]]>