24 Apr
2007
24 Apr
'07
4:21 p.m.
On 24 Apr 2007 at 7:48, Allison wrote:
One thing, you do not have to use D8-15! Sur you give
up half the data
in a sector but you also eliminate a lot of hardware. That and even an
old 100MB drive will yeild 50mb which by CP/M standards is the world in
a bottle.
I've seen that done on at least one TRS-80 lashup. You need to
remember that your sectors thus accessed are 256 bytes and not 512,
which may not be a bad thingl for CP/M.
Cheers,
Chuck