On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 10:25, Roger Merchberger wrote:
Hard and Soft
sectored disks are never compatible.
Ah, never say never, my friend! ;-)
I believe the ubiquituous NEC 765 (et al) does its "index" on read by
scanning for the 0th sector ID (which is 1 :-) The index hole is only
needed for formatting, and that only for compatiblity.