13 Oct
2008
13 Oct
'08
1:51 p.m.
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 g-wright at att.net wrote:
where from the same add on package, don't remember
which and they showed
up as 9 sectors ??? Anadisk finds the same and can read the first 8 sectors and
errors on the 9th.
Some systems that use multiple different numbers of sectoras on a track
will format 9 (or 10), and then depending on which format is desired, only
use 8 (or 9).
Also, if you reuse disks that were previously formatted for 9 sectors per
track (such as PC-DOS "360K"), some systems will see that the 8 sectors
that they need are present, and mat choose to not reformat the disk.