18 Oct
1999
18 Oct
'99
8:01 a.m.
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
All the 5.25 floppies (exception of course) are hard/soft sector based on
media used. The NS* could use a raft of different drives from the old
sa400 35tr SS to the 96tpi two sided all of course hard sector.
you didn't
say what in particular you were looking for.
Well, they have NorthStar QC tags on them dated 8-4-80.
I thought that N* tended to be hard sectored and wanted
to know for sure. There is a little paper tag next to the metal tag with a "2A" on it, so I'll
assume from Don's
message that they are 48 TPI double-sided. Nobody has
said anything so far about hard/soft sectoring...
The drive don't care. It's the media that is important in this case as
soft sector has only one index hole and the hard sector for NS* uses
11 holes(index plus sectors).
Allison