Defining Disk Image Dump Standard

From: James Willing <jimw_at_agora.rdrop.com>
Date: Tue May 30 09:54:15 2000

On Mon, 29 May 2000, Sellam Ismail wrote:

> Let's start sort of from scratch here.
>
> So far we have the following (high level) criterion for a disk archive
> standard:
>
> 1. Host computer type (2 bytes allowing up to 65536 models to be
> specified)
> 2. Track format (host computer specific)
> 3. Sector format (single-density, double-density, etc)
> 4. Sector data format - this will specify what format the archived sector
> is in (raw data? logical bytes?)
> 5. Bytes per sector
> 6. Bits per byte
>
> What else?


Hmmm...

Hard sector vs. SOft sector (for ctrlr emulations)
Interleaving - yes/no/offset value
Sectors per track
# of Tracks
Surfaces (heads) per cylinder
...?

-jim
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