3 Jun
2004
3 Jun
'04
5:45 p.m.
From: "Tom Jennings" <tomj(a)wps.com>
Subject: Re: 8" hard sectored floppies
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 10:25, Roger Merchberger wrote:
I believe the ubiquituous NEC 765 (et al) does its "index" on read by
scanning for the 0th sector ID (which is 1 :-) The index hole is only
needed for formatting, and that only for compatiblity.
I agree, "never" is a big word. I suddenly came to think of that I have
read quite some hard-sectored disks in my 8" drive, so yes, "never" is
wrong. On the other hand, I've seen an occasion where a (5.25") drive
reacted on every hole as if it was an index hole, so believning that the
drives spins at 12x (or whatever) normal speed.
Nico
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Hard and
Soft sectored disks are never compatible.
Ah, never say never, my friend! ;-)