Any AMIGA users?

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Fri Jan 4 15:38:29 2002

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Christopher Smith wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Don Maslin [mailto:donm_at_cts.com]
>
> > I am unaware of such a thing as a hard sectored drive. It is a
> > controller function.
>
> So the sector holes are in exactly the same place as the index hole?

If you mean the index/sector-hole detector on the drive, the answer is
yes. A chap that I just sent some N* disks to says that his Horizon
contains Tandon TM100-2A drives which are just what were used in the
IBM PC/XT series, although rebadged. They read his hard-sector disks
quite nicely.

> > Change the controller card - and the operating system to
> > support it. It
> > has been done.
>
> I imagined it may have... especially with what I've seen done to a Northstar. :)
>
> > > Actually you might be able to get by with it in a high density
> > > drive, given some way of attaching the disk to the "spindle" of the
> > > drive, and provided that you didn't really want to keep the disk
> > > anyway (or possibly the drive!), and if you were willing to write
> > > mind-numbingly useless special-purpose software. Otherwise, I hear
> > > that CompatiCard will drive an 8" floppy ;)
>
> > As will a conventional AT FDC. Trouble is, most of them won't
> > read/write single-density (FM). However, some of the XT class clone
> > controllers with an onboard BIOS and selectable BIOS address
> > will drive
> > an 8" drive and do both FM and MFM.
>
> I think it was Fred in a previous post who said that CompatiCard would
> indeed do FM, but it's early and I'm too lazy to check right now. :)

I believe it was, and they will.
                                                 - don
> Regards,
>
> Chris
>
>
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