27 Jul
2023
27 Jul
'23
8:24 p.m.
On Thu, 27 Jul 2023, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
Really? So SIMH doesn't work with the images, or
it's "slow"?
I prefer to keep images close to "real" as I may want to write them back to
physical floppies. For reference, these images do work with um.... the Goteks
which is what I would use to load onto real equipment.
Why in the name of heaven would SIMH not support proper disk formats?
When transferring files, often the sequence of sectors must be rearranged
so that the data on the disk properly creates the information of the
files.
However, when making IMAGES OF DISKS, what is the "proper" sequence?
Should the imaging prograam re-arrange the sectors into their logical
order?
Or should the imaging prograam maintain the physical sequence of the
sectors?
This is not entirely a rhetorical question.
(Don't you hate rhetorical questions?)
If using the information from the disk, obviously you want "logical"
order.
If using the image as data to recreate a disk, obviously you want physical
order.
Of course, ideally, imaging programs should support both outputs, and
programs working from images should support both inputs.
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