Disc Imaging / Kryoflux - Acorn ADFS 800KB

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Mon Jul 4 10:46:14 CDT 2016


On 07/04/2016 01:43 AM, pete wrote:

> 
> Acorn formatter s/w doesn't write the optional "index mark" before the
> first sector so some PCs have trouble understanding Acorn disks.
> 

If that's a problem on a PC (today it rarely is, but it was in the days
before the "A" revision of the 8272/765 came out, it's a simple matter
to simply block the index signal off the drive cable--it's not needed
for sector reads.

--Chuck



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