On Mon, 26 Jul 2021, Peter Corlett wrote:
When writing, PC-style disk controllers scan for the
appropriate sector
header then switch to write mode to overwrite the old sector data. This
requires guard bands between sectors and sector headers. The PC's
This is not called a guard band. A guard band is the erased zone between
tracks. What you mean is called sector gap, there are multiple gaps
between sector headers and sector data.
Christian