CP/M - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Jun 1998

<Yes, but Apple ][ disks are not readable on hardsectored controllers 
<either. You couldn't take a disk from an Apple ][ and read it on a NS* or
<a Z17.

Actually the NS* contrller and the apple one are very close in that they 
are minimalist.  The NS controller can read media without index/sector
as years back I wrote a driver that did track read and writes for to see 
if I could use softsector media.  I had to lay down a lot more marks thats 
all.  The basic NS* read and write counts sectors, then waits for a sync 
byte and then reads.

What the NS* controller cannot do is create the various marks that have 
missing clocks.

Allison