19 Jan
2023
19 Jan
'23
7:08 p.m.
On 1/19/2023 8:23 PM, Chris via cctalk wrote:
I have to be honest at this point. A disk srive in
some sense "responds" in some sense to changes in flux density around the
surface of disks. So what is the GW picking up, other then what the drive is already
reading? It's an interim device that sits between the drive amd the cable. It makes
use of signals that travel between the drive and fdc.
Does it read a disk better then say Diskimage can?
I think folks are being too MFM-centric in their responses to this question.
"ImageDisk can identify, read and write any disk format that a PC floppy
controller can handle — so *it can do most FM/MFM formats*, but not
Amiga disks with odd timing, or Commodore 8-bit disks with GCR encoding. "
GW can do the same, but can also handle GCR encoded disks, the Amiga
disks noted above, and it might be able to do older Apple Mac 720K disks
It's really not fair to compare ImageDisk to GW. ImageDisk is limited
to the configuration options and assumptions built into the FDC. GW has
no such restriction.
Jim
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