[sebhc] Soft sectored vrs hard sectored

[melamy at earthlink.net]

I think the volume info would be a proprietary thing for Heath.
The disk format certainly doesn't need the information there
whether it is soft or hard sectored. The only info in a soft
sectored record (aka IBM standard) is the sector starting at
1 and track starting at 0.

best regards, Steve Thatcher

>--- Original Message ---
>From: "Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey at amd.com>
>To: sebhc at sebhc.org
>Date: 5/26/04 4:20:32 PM
>
Hi
> We've been mostly looking at the hard sectored
>formats lately. One of the things that was done
>on these was that the tracks other than track 0
>had the volume number embedded in the header. I was
>wondering how they dealed with this for soft sectored
>disk? I don't think any of the 17xx parts allowed
>a simple way to do special headers.
> Does anyone have a soft sectored controller? It
>would be good to get the ROM code from one of these
>to help with the emulation efforts.
>Dwight
>
>
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