[sebhc] Soft/hard sector disks

[Steven Parker]

Lee Wrote:
>It was the reverse of this. The published circuit allowed you to use
>physically hard-sectored disks (with 11 holes) with the soft-sector
>controller (which expected 1-hole disks). The idea was that you had
>100's of hard-sector disks when you bought your new soft-sector
>controller, and could re-use these disks.

I was just thinking .. perhaps with a special driver, you could read 
soft-sector disks, in the soft-sector format, using the hard-sector 
controller.  Or is the low-level encoding not compatible?

I know you couldn't boot them, run soft-sector software, or probably write 
them, but you could perhaps read them.


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