16 Dec
2007
16 Dec
'07
8:47 a.m.
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:53:16 -0800
From: dwight elvey <dkelvey at hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Quick survey
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Hi
There is nothing in the drive that is specific to the number
of sectors.
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Except that a number of "modern" drives will not go ready and
pass data with any hard sector disks.
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The following were 10 sector disk:
Polymorphic 8813 Used both single and double density disk
H8/89 H17 controller used single density
NorthStar single density ( double?? don't think so )
These are all 5.25inch. As far as I know, 10 sectored
was
the most common. I don't know of any that used 16 sectored
and never heard of 9 sectored.
Dwight
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Just goes to show ya: all I've got are 16 sector disks, originally used
in CBM computers (not because they were needed but because they
were cheap) and now handy for my Vector Graphic MZs.
I think Jerome was talking about 9 sector soft sector disks.
mike