9 Aug
2013
9 Aug
'13
3:54 p.m.
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
I also thought that
on floppies precomp
was only applied after tk 23 on 5" and 43 on 8"
The optimal precomp actually depends on the model of drive, the track
number, and to a lesser extent on the medium. For commodity hardware
they obviously had to come up with a compromise that would work pretty
well on all drives and media.
It should be possible to write software to use a DiscFerret or the
like to automatically determine the optimal precomp for every track
for a particular drive model.
Eric