flash (or ide) storage for unibus 11?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-11-27 19:34, Mark J. Blair wrote:
>
>> On Nov 26, 2015, at 04:29, Jerome H. Fine <jhfinedp3k at compsys.to> wrote:
>>
>> After that worked successfully, I became disappointed
>> that I had to deface the floppy media with the extra holes.  The
>> simple solution was to use a DPDT switch and flip the detection
>> circuits so that the RX03 drive would signal a double-sided media
>> what there was a single-sided index hole and the DPDT switch was
>> in the alternate position.
>
> Wouldn't that approach result in the sectors being shifted with respect to the index hole vs. the case where the conventional index sensor positions are used? I would imagine that it's a moot point if the disks are being formatted, written and read on the same drive, but I can imagine interoperation issues if you later punch the second jacket window to read/write the disks on an unmodified drive.

If the drive were to use the same offset from the index hole to data, 
and so on, yes.
But why would a drive keep those constants the same if the hole moved?

	Johnny

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