GoTEK SFR1M44-U100...

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Wed Jul 18 13:15:11 CDT 2018


On 07/18/2018 09:03 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:

> Aha! Interesting. So it's not actually able to be read as if it were a
> diskette? It's sort of hijacking the drive as an alternative I/O
> medium, pulsing data at a stationary drive head, ignoring rotation and
> track positioning?

That's essentially it.  The device does spew out a dummy boot sector if
it's not interacting with the driver software.

But yes, essentially a (rather inefficient) serial interface.  On the
plus side, there's no seek timing.

--Chuck



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