9 Dec
2024
9 Dec
'24
5:43 a.m.
On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 1:02 PM Peter Ekstrom via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
This one seems to have information on the diskette layout starting on page
230:
https://electrickery.nl/comp/p2000c/doc/P2000C-SystemRefServiceManual.pdf
Unofortunately that doesn't go far enough. It doesn't give the number
of sectors/track or their size (I think it's 16 sectors, each of 256
bytes)
It also doesn't give the 'skew. Under CP/M the sectors may not be used
in numerical order, maybe it uses every third one until all are used
then goes on to the next track. This is something that is very hard to
determine by lookng at the disk but is obviously essential to know to
make use of the diak image.
-tony