30 Jul
2007
30 Jul
'07
8:14 p.m.
Hi,
Is it possible to read, but not necessarily write, a NorthStar Horizon hard
sector disk using a standard PC NEC 765 type FDC?
If not, why? The NorthStar controller uses FM and/or MFM encoding but I do
not understand the reason why.
Based on what I have read, it appears the NorthStar disks are unreadable on
the PC without special hardware such as the MatchPoint PC and/or Catweasel
cards.
Thanks in advance for your enlightenment on the subject.
Andrew Lynch