Strange Teledisk question

[Adrian Graham]

> Find a copy of Anadisk and see what it reports regarding sector
> ordering.  Also, you might try "sector" mode with the "Diagnostic Read"
> function, though that requires a bit of knowledge.

I did have a look at that, now that the show we were getting ready for is finished I can spend a bit more time analysing. I used Anadisk to get disk details for ImageDisk because that’s usually the first utility I go for. It was just pure fluke that I suggested he re-imaged the disk with Teledisk and was amazed that it worked.

> Another thing to try is to grab a copy of Dave Dunfield's ImageDisk
> utility and see if it gets the copy right.  You could also image both
> disks and compare the images.

I’ll do that too. Hurray for ‘special case’ code though :) 

> People still have diskette drives?

Somebody has apparently got an HxC emulator running in a Waveterm but we didn’t have time to investigate that route. Because the Waveterm is still thinking there’s 8” drives in there it keeps the motor running constantly and only drops the head to read a sample. 

Cheers,

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