Reading ESDI disks

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Thu Feb 11 11:40:26 CST 2021


On 2/11/21 9:36 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>  An ESDI drive, in my experience, behaves
> exactly like an ATA one, right down to the command set.   ESDI drives
> can be soft-or-hard sectored.
> 
> What am I missing?

What do you do if the controller and drive don't match?

ESDI and RLL versions of Dave's MFM reader are on my list of things to do.



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