1 Jan
2011
1 Jan
'11
6:24 p.m.
On 31 Dec 2010 at 20:48, Tony Duell wrote:
Yes, I realised that all too late... next time I will think before posting...
I then thought that if the offset was close to an odd multiple of half the
track spacing, then perhaps you could use a drive with twice as many
cylinders nad read the odd rather than even tracks (e.g. use an 80
cylinder 5.25" drive to read a40 cylinder flippy). Alas, that doesn't
work either. IIRC, the side 1 head is offset towards the spindle, so you
can't move the head out far enouth to read the otuermost sylinders on
side 1 of a flippy.
-tony
Would it be possible to read a 'flippy'
in a dobule-head drive (I
asusme the Diskferret has a sid-select output) and then revese the
bitstream form side 1 in software brfore trying to analyse it?
No. The heads in a double-sided drive are offset from each other by
a non-integral multiple of inter-track spacing.