Reading old disks on Linux

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Wed Oct 16 19:11:01 2002

> >It has some good information, some errors, and some good and bad guesses
> >(such as saying that it is probably possible to read hard sectored disks
> >with PC hardware)

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> Maybe he meant that if the computer he had, has an accessible
> DSP processor ( as some modem and sound cards have ). With
> this, one could use the controller to deal with track stepping
> and use the DSP to do the actual data reads. Of course,
> one needs to do some hard wiring to patch things together.
>
> ( Well, maybe he didn't mean that after all. )

If so, that would have to be a definition of "on standard FDCs" that I was
not previously aware of.

He DID properly state that reading Macintosh 400K/800K needed hardware
assistance, but incorrectly blamed it on the drive (its a disk CONTROLLER
issue),
Received on Wed Oct 16 2002 - 19:11:01 BST