17 Jun
1998
17 Jun
'98
10:38 a.m.
<Yes, but Apple ][ disks are not readable on hardsectored controllers
<either. You couldn't take a disk from an Apple ][ and read it on a NS* or
<a Z17.
Actually the NS* contrller and the apple one are very close in that they
are minimalist. The NS controller can read media without index/sector
as years back I wrote a driver that did track read and writes for to see
if I could use softsector media. I had to lay down a lot more marks thats
all. The basic NS* read and write counts sectors, then waits for a sync
byte and then reads.
What the NS* controller cannot do is create the various marks that have
missing clocks.
Allison