Disc Imaging / Kryoflux - Acorn ADFS 800KB

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Sat Jul 2 18:04:31 CDT 2016


On Sat, 2 Jul 2016, 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

Thank you!


Note: the use of the term "quad" density in this chart is not the same as, 
but a more rational use of the term than, the misuse that was prevalent in 
the days of 640K - 800K 5.25" CP/M









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