18 Jul
2018
18 Jul
'18
11:15 a.m.
On 07/18/2018 09:03 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
Aha! Interesting. So it's not actually able to be
read as if it were a
diskette? It's sort of hijacking the drive as an alternative I/O
medium, pulsing data at a stationary drive head, ignoring rotation and
track positioning?
That's essentially it. The device does spew out a dummy boot sector if
it's not interacting with the driver software.
But yes, essentially a (rather inefficient) serial interface. On the
plus side, there's no seek timing.
--Chuck