On Jun 3, 10:20, Ashley Carder wrote:
  I have a DEC RX01 drive and the box of floppies that I
have
 with it are 8 inch single sided single density.  Are 8" hard
 sectored floppies compatible with these? 
No, RX01 (and RX02) are soft-sectored.
Soft-sectored disks have one index hole punched near the centre, and an
optical sensor detects this once per revolution, indicating the logical
start-of-track.  Hard-sectored disks have one hole per sector, and the
sensor detects these to indicate start-of-sector; the first sector is
distinguished because there's an extra hole (the index hole) punched
halfway between two sector holes.
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