[sebhc] hard or soft

[Carroll Waddell]

yep, that's it
cw

Steve Thatcher wrote:

>what Carroll was tring to say is that in a H17 hard sector controller,  it would make no difference whether you put a SS disk or a HS disk in. The drive would still work and the disk would be treated as a HS disk. It was not an attempt to make a hard sector controller read a soft sector formatted disk...
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>correct me if I have interpreted things wrong Carroll.
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>best regards, Steve Thatcher
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: "Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey at amd.com>
>Sent: Jul 1, 2004 6:06 PM
>To: sebhc at sebhc.org
>Subject: Re: [sebhc] hard or soft
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>>From: "Carroll Waddell" <CarrollWaddell at sc.rr.com>
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>>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
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>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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