13 Aug
2007
13 Aug
'07
9:42 a.m.
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Fred Cisin wrote:
> at least I could
> perfectly read all my SORD M23 disks in a standard DSHD drive (with tracks
> 0-2 obviously missing at the beginning). The M23 disks are 100tpi SS MFM,
> the drives used are TEAC FD-50C.
All of the Sord disks that I've seen have been
96tpi.
Hm, what SORD disks? There were modern SORDs like the M68K and the newer
version of the M243 that had standard 5.25" drives, they were low profile
desktop machines from the mid-80s. The SORD M23 is from 1982, the external
FDD is a SORD FD-20 that contains two TEAC drives.
I must admit that I had't tried to read *all* tracks, I had only read
some random tracks across the disk with AnaDisk. I've just done a SCAN of
the disk now. It starts with a difference of three tracks (track 0 is read
with track ID 3 and so on) and finishes with a difference of six tracks
(track 73, track ID 79). There are three areas where the drive sees some
sectors of one track and some of the next track (e.g. at track 42 it sees
sectors from track 46 and from track 47), partially with read errors.
BTW the disks are single-sided, MFM, 16 sectors/track (1-16), 80 tracks,
interleave 2:1.
Christian