9 Sep
2023
9 Sep
'23
12:01 a.m.
On 9/8/23 15:00, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote:
Hi Chuck,
The drive is a Qume Qumetrak 242 so I assume soft sector? I'm open to
correction.
Mostly. Most drives can, with the proper logic be made to read and
write hard-sector disks. You just don't get separate SECTOR/ and INDEX/
outputs.
I read hard sector floppies in an 842, for example and it lacks the
hard-sector support logic.
On the other hand, my Siemens FDD 200 have the logic, along with a
configurable sector divider (32,16,8 sectors) as well as an optional
data separator.
There is a lot of variation in 8" drives.
--Chuck