Altos 686/886 (i286) MFM drive parameters

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Sat Oct 22 16:21:09 CDT 2016


also, did the Altos Xenix 3.2F distribution floppies ever surface.
It is installed on the disks, but the images I wrote would have to be scrubbed of the user stuff on there.

On 10/22/16 11:55 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> micropolis 1325
> 
> --sectors 16,0 --heads 8 --cylinders 1024 --header_crc 0xffff,0x1021,16,0 --data_crc  0xffffffff,0x140a0445,32,5
> --format WD_1006 --sector_length 512
> 
> 40 meg disk in the system used a 1323, 4 heads instead of 8
> 



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