10 Sep
2006
10 Sep
'06
4:37 p.m.
On 9/10/2006 at 3:53 PM Allison wrote:
Must be possible as my notes say all 5.25" formatsl reserved 6 cylinders*2
sides for the boot tracks. On the 512 and 1024 bytes-per-sector versions,
that's about 60K. On the 256 byte/sector version its about 55K for the
boot.
Cheers,
Chuck
CCS did have
some 5.25" disk formats (both 48tpi and 96tpi) supported.
I have no idea whether they ever used them as boot disks.
I'd have to read the boot rom source. Who knows it's been years since
I read the FDC manual so it could be wired in, the controller does
do 5.25. I'd bet a penny there is no reason why not.