1 Sep
2004
1 Sep
'04
2:46 p.m.
on 9/1/04 9:46 AM, Christian Corti at cc(a)corti-net.de wrote:
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Richard Lynch wrote:
In Anadisk, I set the parameters to MFM, High Density, 128K sector size, 77
tracks, 48 sectors. It appears to format it correctly, but when I go to
scan it afterward, it says the sector IDs are 1-32.
disk, but I can't be sure because I can't
recreate the disk. It gets to 32
sectors and can't find anymore. I have a similar problem trying to use
Anadisk to format an 8" floppy. I set it to 48 sectors, but it only writes
out to 32 sectors.
What disk format are you trying to create? Nearly all PC floppy
controllers (and probably other controllers, too) can't handle more than
32 sectors/track. I've found one that could do more (up to about 50) but I
don't remember the type right now (maybe a DP8473). Other things that
could cause problems are the GAP sizes which can't be made too small. I
tried it when I wanted to create 52 sec/trk MFM disks, although 26 sec/trk
FM works fine.
Christian