hunter44102 Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 I used the Atari800 emulator to create standard 180K blank disk images on the PC. I then put those on the SD card for SIO2SD (and connected to my 130XE w/SpartaDOS X cart) I mounted one of the 180K blanks to D1: With the SpartaDOS X cartridge, I did a Format command successfully for Double density 180K. "Disk Formatted successfully" Immediately when I did a DIR, I get "Unrecongized diskette format" After re-starting the computer however it was able to show blank MAIN directory with 713 free sectors. After I started copying files from physical disk (D2) to the mounted D1, it copied 2 files and then said "unrecognized disk format" After this when I do a DIR, it says "unrecognized diskette format" again did I not initialize the disk properly? (Note: I am trying to back up my old SpartaDOS based disks to ATR images to preserve them) Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 (edited) when you formatted the disk disk you see the words writing directory or directory written? also what speed index is your sio2sd set at? Edited April 14, 2017 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunter44102 Posted April 14, 2017 Author Share Posted April 14, 2017 (edited) I turned off SIO High speed to completely OFF. Still having the issue unfortunately! Its weird because it says it was successful formatting and writing the directory Instead of the SIO2SD I connected another physical drive and was able to format a blank and copy the files that way. So I ruled out the SIO cables or any other weird issues. It looks like an SIO2SD issue. Could it be a chain issue - I had the SIO2SD set up as D1 but it was connected to the XF551 which was D2 Edited April 14, 2017 by hunter44102 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 (edited) If there was an image accidentally left in the same slot as another device, that very well can cause any number of errors on access...and even if the devices are correct for you computer has the filter caps pulled from the sio I hope. Edited April 14, 2017 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunter44102 Posted April 14, 2017 Author Share Posted April 14, 2017 UPDATE: OK I pulled out an OLD SIO2SD from like 2007 and it WORKS right out of the gate! I can copy files from physical disks to disk images So now I am stumped why my 2017 SIO2SD does not work with these disk images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 bad wires, borked firmware? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunter44102 Posted April 14, 2017 Author Share Posted April 14, 2017 The seller is telling me it could be the new hardware is too fast? or SD card issue (I am using the one seller provided) I will try a different SD card. If that doesn't work I will see if I can load version 2.3 which is the firmware that works with the old SIO2SD. (the new on has 3.1) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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