8 Jan
2021
8 Jan
'21
5:17 p.m.
On Jan 8, 2021, at 2:57 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 7:38 PM Chris Zach via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Yes, but also to hide bad blocks. So the difference between a raw sector dump and a SIMH
container file is, minimally, the spare sectors. What that looks like depends on the
format; I have no idea what MSCP controllers did.
paul
Oddly enough SIMH seems to read a raw RQDX1/2
disk pretty well.
That's good to know, but not really all that odd. Arguably the main purpose
of MSCP was to abstract away drive and controller differences.