On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
> > > Really?
> > > The Vector machines that I have seen have all been hard-sectored. I would
> > > LOVE to see a PC (running Teledisk, or ANY other software) be able to do
> > > anything at all except CHOKE on a hard-sectored disk.
>
> On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
> > Am I allowed to do some hardware hacking? I see no reason why a PC with a
> > suitable card could not read a hard-sectored disk....
>
> Of course I meant a stock unmodified PC, with "normal" hardware.
>
> But yes, I'd love to have you make disk controllers for PC that can handle
> hard sectored, GCR, etc. It's certainly quite doable, but there isn't
> much of a commercial market for them.
>
> --
> Fred Cisin cisin_at_xenosoft.com
> XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com
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> Berkeley, CA 94701-1236
And I also would be delighted to have you create such a controller. I'd
even forego the GCR part, but I would like to see 10 and 16 sector in
the 5.25" disks and 32 sector in the 8" ones!
Wow! That would be a real blessing.
- don
Received on Sun Sep 09 2001 - 22:17:28 BST