29 Apr
2003
29 Apr
'03
11:53 a.m.
Hi
I've been looking at a pile of disk that I'd
collected over a period of years. Most are the
typical 10 hard sectored disk, formatted in the
same way as HDOS uses. In the pile, I found a
few that are marked "format 96". These have the
10 plus index holes but they don't seem to be
the normal format. When I attempt to read them,
I can only read the first sector. All of the rest
don't seem to read. Does anyone know what this
was all about?
Dwight
29 Apr
29 Apr
1:03 p.m.
Just as a guess I'd say that they're 96 TPI 80 track disks instead of 40 track
disks. I don't know but I'm guessing that the HK normally used 40 track disks but
that those disks came from someone had a mod to use 80 track disks. That was pretty common
on a lot of the early computers. I did that to my Sanyo and I had a Kaypro that had the
Advent Turbo ROM and 80 track drives installed.
Joe
At 04:51 PM 4/29/03 -0700, you wrote:
Hi
I've been looking at a pile of disk that I'd
collected over a period of years. Most are the
typical 10 hard sectored disk, formatted in the
same way as HDOS uses. In the pile, I found a
few that are marked "format 96". These have the
10 plus index holes but they don't seem to be
the normal format. When I attempt to read them,
I can only read the first sector. All of the rest
don't seem to read. Does anyone know what this
was all about?
Dwight
4:53 p.m.
On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
Hi
I've been looking at a pile of disk that I'd
collected over a period of years. Most are the
typical 10 hard sectored disk, formatted in the
same way as HDOS uses. In the pile, I found a
few that are marked "format 96". These have the
10 plus index holes but they don't seem to be
the normal format. When I attempt to read them,
I can only read the first sector. All of the rest
don't seem to read. Does anyone know what this
was all about?
Dwight
Dwight, I would assume that they were done on a 96tpi
floppy drive.
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