9 May
2009
9 May
'09
8:40 a.m.
On Sat, 9 May 2009, Richard Lynch wrote:
Of the 100 or so Xerox floppies I've archived so
far, track 0 varies enough
that my guess is it doesn't matter. I've seen a lot of 26x128 as you
mention, but every once in awhile it is 26x256, and sometimes the interleave
matches the rest of the tracks and sometimes it doesn't. When the disk is
DSDD, track 0 side 1 always matches the rest of the tracks at 26x256, even
if side 0 is 26x128. When I use IMDV to look at track 0, sometimes it's
completely blank and sometimes not.
Richard
Interesting. Will SYSGEN write the boot loader and OS to a track
formatted as 26x256? Will the firmware recognize this and cold start from
it? If so, all the better!
I currently have only a single drive operational (waiting for a couple
more from another cctech-er) and that's making things a bit more
difficult.
Steve
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