13 Dec
2019
13 Dec
'19
5:01 p.m.
On 12/13/19 4:41 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
But the variant types don't invalidate your
hypothesis of what system,
any more than finding a few extraneous Macintosh diskettes in the box
for your Windows disks.? I assume that you are right, but there are some
others thrown in.
("How the hell did those get mixed together?")
I wasn't looking very closely, just spitballing. Without the physical
media, that's really all that anyone can do.
A couple of years ago, a customer sent me a batch hard-sector 8" disks
to process. Try as I might, I couldn't get the start of sector data to
match up with the sector holes.
It was then that I realized that the customer simply purchased HS disks
to use on his soft-sector setup. Some 8" drives allowed for jumpering
to bring out the Index and Sector signals separately. Ignore the
sector signal and you've got a soft-sector disk.
Stuff happens.
--Chuck