Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!pacbell!att!ihnp4!ihlpl!ihchk!ihtlt!kosman!kevin From: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general Subject: Re: West Coast source for disk upgrade info and diagnostic Summary: GAK!! Foot in mouth!! Format for 8 sectors, please!!!!! Message-ID: <434@kosman.UUCP> Date: 6 Jul 88 16:50:20 GMT References: <432@kosman.UUCP> Reply-To: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Root) Distribution: na Organization: K.O.'s Manor - Vital Computer Systems, Oxnard, CA 93035 Lines: 40 In article <432@kosman.UUCP> kevin@kosman.UUCP (that's me) writes: ]Mark Hilliard (mark@gizzmo) has been distributing the upgraded ]diagnostic to support upgraded disks: more than 8 heads and 1024 ]cylinders. I have got the diagnostic and the info on the upgrades, ]and I have agreed to distribute them on the west coast. ] ]The offer is the same, but there's something you should know: ]Mark says most of the disks that folks have been sending in are ]formatted wrong: 8 sectors per track, when the diagnostic needs ]to be formatted for 10. He has been nice about this, but with Ohhh.. Gakkkk I didn't look at the disk I got from Mark -- it's formatted for 8, and has the diagnostic on it. I was also probably one of the ones who sent the wrong format disk. My face is red!!! Anyway, I still can't be reformatting disks and everything else for $2.00, so the offer is as before in that the disks have to be formatted correctly. That's 8 per track, not 10. I am embarrassed, but I have to stick to it. ]lots of people responding in this way, he's not happy. The way ]it works out, he said he should have asked for $5.00. ] ]I like to be nice, too, but after hearing what Mark had to say, ]here's my form of the offer: send $2.00 for postage and handling, ]and a CORRECTLY FORMATTED disk, and a RE-USABLE mailer, and I will ]put the diagnostic on it and send it back. Fail in any of these, ]and you will get a nice note asking to to try again, or else send ]$3.00 and I will make up what's missing. Or you can send $5.00 ]with your address and I will supply it all. With the $5.00 you ]will get the upgrade info, too. This is 9 pages (5 sheets) of ]double sided xerox stuff (terrible copies, I'm afraid) with ]installation instructions, diagrams and PAL equations. ] ]I am also working on getting a supply of the PALs that we need for ]the more-heads upgrade. Not too much luck yet. ] ]--- ]Kevin O'Gorman ( kevin@kosman ) voice: 805-984-8042 ] Vital Computer Systems, 5115 Beachcomber, Oxnard, CA 93035