8 Oct
2011
8 Oct
'11
1:19 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
Not exactly "happily".
Sectors, certainly.
But, files? The directory starts on track 0 side A, but continues onto
track 0 side B, and even a simple "DIR" command will give errors. If the
disk is not fragmented, than any file larger than one track (4.5K on 360k
and 720K) will continue onto the second side. If it IS fragmented, then
clusters are distributed semi-randomly, and "half" will be on second side.
Tell that to my 5155 Portable Personal Computer. It has one
double-sided drive and one single-sided one. I've successfully put a
disk formatted and written in the double-sided drive into the single
sided drive, run DIR, and even TYPEd files. Then some files didn't work
and I realized I had the disk in the wrong drive.
Peace... Sridhar