[sebhc] hard or soft

[Lee Hart]

Carroll Waddell wrote:
> 
> 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.

Yes; this happened automatically with my old circuit (I wonder if I can
find it?). It always passed real index hole pulses straight thru, but
omitted the synthesized sector holes if it couldn't achieve lock (and it
couldn't with a real hard-sector disk because there were too many
holes).
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