1.44M floppy on Color Computer (was Re: Ebay reaches new low)

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Wed Nov 10 22:34:34 1999

<> Is this a problem? Firstly, who says you'd use an MS-DOS format -- the
<> CoCo uses 256 byte sectors for virtually everything, and I'd suggest
<> keeping to that on the HD disks, just having more of them. As to being
<> more wasteful, well, MS-DOS 360K (and 720K) disks fit 9 512byte sectors
<> on a track, the CoCo fits 18 256byte sectors. Looks the same to me.

My ampro and Kaypro run a 10x512 and 5x1024 format that yeilds 781k.
If those sector sizes are awkward then bufer them for host deblocking.
Doing that will also get you a mini-cache with a small perfomance increase..

Allison
Received on Wed Nov 10 1999 - 22:34:34 GMT