power connection for 8" drive -- tandon tm848-01

Al Kossow wrote: yes -- it has a very strange scheme. it is a 32 sector hard sectored disk, but it isn't used that way. it has variable sized sectors so that the inter-sector gap can be used to hold data too. first off, the disk controller ignores every other sector, so effectively there are 16 possible 256 byte sectors. the OS decides allocation, and files declare what sector size they want and the OS allocates things to make it work. you can ask for a 256 byte sector, but you only get 16 of those on a track. offhand, I don't recall how much bonus data you get by using the gap, but it is something like 25-30% extra. at most you can ask for 13 sector sized blocks, but you get 16*256B of data in that space. The catweasel, as I understand it, can deal with this, although I'll have to write the software to decode it.