10 Sep
2001
10 Sep
'01
5:01 a.m.
FWIW, I did once correspond with the Catweasel guy and he said it would
do N* 10-hole hard-sectored disks, but he had never had a request or
seen a N* disk. I was supposed to send him some samples but never got a
round tuit.
And don't forget, it has already been done - the Microsolutions
MatchPoint card allows your PC to read N* disks. Of course, just try to
find one!
If it provides motivation for one of you hardware types with nothing
better to do, I'd lend my support to requesting an add-in card which
could handle the 10 and 16 hole 5.25" disks and the 32 hole 8 inchers as
well (I have a lot of ProcTech Helios disks).
Bob Stek
Saver of Lost Sols
10 Sep
10 Sep
6:34 a.m.
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Bob Stek wrote:
FWIW, I did once correspond with the Catweasel guy and
he said it would
do N* 10-hole hard-sectored disks, but he had never had a request or
seen a N* disk. I was supposed to send him some samples but never got a
round tuit.
I'll be glad to believe it as soon as he actually TRIES it. For example:
is he aware of the complications created by the drive ready sensing
additional circuitry in TEAC drives that uses the index pulse?
And don't forget, it has already been done - the
Microsolutions
MatchPoint card allows your PC to read N* disks. Of course, just try to
find one!
The Apple Turnover card (Vertex Systems) was once claimed to be able to do
it. But NOBODY ever successfully read hard sectors with it.
(My contract/bet gave me two weeks to write file system support for it
once they would get a successful read of a sector.)
If it provides motivation for one of you hardware
types with nothing
better to do, I'd lend my support to requesting an add-in card which
could handle the 10 and 16 hole 5.25" disks and the 32 hole 8 inchers as
well (I have a lot of ProcTech Helios disks).
There are numerous people who claim that it is trivial to do, but none of
them seem to be able to, and simply claim that they don't WANT to. I
think that that ought to be sufficient grounds for molten iron.
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