[sebhc] Soft or Hard?

[Steve Thatcher]

remanufacturing a SS controller certainly is possible, but what was desired was the ability to use the original HS hardware and not replace the controller with something else. Of course, my "other" old computer is a N* which alos uses hard sector disks, so the idea was to make "something" that would not be machine dependent.

best regards, Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Carroll Waddell <CarrollWaddell at sc.rr.com>
Sent: Jun 30, 2004 3:05 PM
To: sebhc at sebhc.org
Subject: Re: [sebhc] Soft or Hard?

What I meant was, why use a hard sector controller at all. Didn't Heath 
make a soft sector controller? Why not use (or remanufacture) that?




Steve Thatcher wrote:

>the reason this whole thing started was to be able to use soft sector disks in a hard sector controller. The only reason to do that was to be able to use disks that are easier to come by.
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>I am not aware of any soft sector controllers (1771, 1793, 765, 8272, etc) that can be told to read hard sector formatted disks. The hard sector holes were used to mark a position on disk to read and write on. In a soft sectored format, data is written across an entire track when you format a disk. When you go to write on a specific sector, the controller actually reads the sector info off the track in order to find and then the write at the proper position.
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>best regards, Steve Thatcher
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Carroll Waddell <CarrollWaddell at sc.rr.com>
>Sent: Jun 30, 2004 2:17 PM
>To: sebhc <sebhc at sebhc.org>
>Subject: [sebhc] Soft or Hard?
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>I wonder if it wouldn't just be easier to use the soft sector controller 
>that Heath made for the H8 / H89.
>Am I missing the point? Why try to fool the H17 into thinking that a 
>soft sector is a hard sector.
>CEW
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