1 Jun
2000
1 Jun
'00
9:08 a.m.
On 1 Jun 2000, Eric Smith wrote:
Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com> wrote:
Of course not. But because of the head orientation on Apple disk drives,
the backside of the disk is what actually holds the "side 1" data.
Say for instance you had a bad sector on a "one-sided" diskette caused by
a physical defect and you looked at the front surface of the disk through
the head notch looking for the defect. You wouldn't see it. You'd have
to flip the disk over to see the defect.
But of course, you knew this :)
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I know that's true on the Apple ][. Side
"1" is actually the backside of
the diskette and vice versa.
I have no idea what you mean by that. The Apple ][ disk format has no
concept of "side". There's no field in the address mark for a side
designation.