6 Sep
2011
6 Sep
'11
8:16 a.m.
On 6 Sep 2011 at 11:31, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
This is probably something that Fred knows about as well--the way
C2PC did this was to issue a format command for a sector with a very
large length in the header and then proceed to write the sector,
causing the 765 to "eat its tail", leaving no addresses on the track.
The problem with this, as people who discovered that 5.25" 2D
floppies "bulk erased", then formatted in a 1.2M drive (alternate
tracks), then read in a 360K (48tpi) drives still had the background
"noise" and so didn't work.
Nothing substitutes for a genuine bulk eraser/degausser. Nothing.
One may as well have done a DOS FORMAT for all the good it would have
done.
--Chuck
> DiscFerret
DFI image formats
> * Bulk-erase (anyone remember COPYIIPC?)
This is something I miss :(