[sebhc] Soft/hard sector disks

[Roger Birkholz]

Well! I'm glad there is lots of discussion on this. Thanks for setting
things straight Lee. I wasn't even sure if I was on target much less a
bullseye! My first Heathkit was a VTVM I built in 1973. Sure do miss those
kits. Roger B.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Parker" <sp11 at hotmail.com>
To: <sebhc at sebhc.org>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 12:09 PM
Subject: [sebhc] Soft/hard sector disks


> 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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