Unless you mean drives that have sector hole sensors around the exterior of
the diskette, it makes no difference, since the index sensor is the one that
does the work. Any drive that can do hard sectoring can do soft sectoring
as well. Drives that lack the sector separator can't support hard
sectoring, though, but that often can be added, as many drives have the
component sites on the PCB even though they may not be populated. There
probably are exceptions, but I don't remember any.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Jennings" <xds_sigma7_at_hotmail.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: Format for IBM display writer disks??
> Errrm, I have 8" hard-sector disks.. they are used by my Wang 2200MVP..
> which would mean the Nicolet 1080 possibly also uses hard-sector floppies,
> since they share the same floppy disk drives, Shugart 9xx, can't remember
> the number offhand. The DisplayWriter uses the 31SD.
>
> Will J
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Received on Thu Jan 18 2001 - 17:47:25 GMT