12 Oct
2007
12 Oct
'07
9:09 a.m.
>Now that 22Disk and the rest of the tools have
been exonerated, we can
>concentrate on ways to read the hard to read sectors - a ubiquitous
>problem with Cromemco disks.
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, M H Stein wrote:
Admittedly a problem when trying to read their disks
with today's crippled
controllers, but their use of a common SD Track 0 meant that without any
. . .
It all just looks different from today's PC-centric perspective.
No complaint about the idea of minimal first sector.
The specific problem that I was referring to is the incompatability with
trying to read Cromemco diskettes using an NEC 765 type controller, which
needs a larger index gap, resulting problems reading the first sector
of each track.