Reading old disks on Linux

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwightk.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Wed Oct 16 19:42:00 2002

>From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
>
>> >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.

 Ok, I was stretching a little to give him the 'benefit of the doubt'.
Dwight

>
>He DID properly state that reading Macintosh 400K/800K needed hardware
>assistance, but incorrectly blamed it on the drive (its a disk CONTROLLER
>issue),
>
>
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