Disc Imaging / Kryoflux - Acorn ADFS 800KB

Mike Stein mhs.stein at gmail.com
Sat Jul 2 18:00:11 CDT 2016


On the porch looking at your cabinet and my chair.

Thanks.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2016 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: Disc Imaging / Kryoflux - Acorn ADFS 800KB


> On 07/02/2016 02:15 PM, Peter Coghlan wrote:
> 
>> 
>> The original ADFS had 16 sectors of 256 bytes per track. However, it 
>> appears that more recent ADFS formats use 5 sectors of 1024 bytes.
>> There are more details here:
>> 
>> http://mdfs.net/Docs/Comp/Disk/Format/Formats
> 
> Since I don't have an Acorn, I'm a bit in the dark about all of this
> talk about Kyroflux.   Wouldn't it be simpler to use a legacy PC floppy
> controller?
> 
> I've copied RX02 disks using the Catweasel.  Tim Mann wrote a nice set
> of utilities to do just that.
> 
> --Chuck
>


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