[sebhc] h17 and h8d disk images

[Dan Lanciani]

"Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey at amd.com> wrote:

| I just meant that CP/M has a nice table that one can replace.

I don't think it's nice at all.  It was yet another piece of meta data
that you needed to correctly read a foreign disk.  Combined with vendors'
tendencies to use other than DRI's recommended allocation parameters it
made interchange of anything other than SS/SD 8" disks a nightmare.  Which
reminds me...  Somewhere on one of the disks I just finished imaging is a
program I wrote to dynamically patch the BIOS in memory with parameters
for various foreign disks (as stored in little parameter files).  This
was primarily for soft-sectored disks, of course.

|I'm
|not sure if I've ever seen anything like that in HDOS, although
|it might be there.

Happily it is not.

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl at danlan.*com
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