[sebhc] hard or soft

Dwight K. Elvey dwight.elvey at amd.com
Thu Jul 1 17:06:12 CDT 2004


>From: "Carroll Waddell" <CarrollWaddell at sc.rr.com>
>
>I was just thinking that if we could build a sector pulse generator to 
>use soft sector diskettes in the H17, it would be nice to build in a 
>circuit that could detect if the diskette was hard or soft sector. If 
>hard, then pass the sector pulses through. If soft, then generate the 
>pulses.
>Carroll

Hi
 I'm not sure what good this would do. The two formats
are not compatable and one controller can't read the others
data. There'd be little reason to detect between the two
coming out of the drive.
Dwight


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