Rumor has it that Nico de Jong may have mentioned these words:
> > I have a DEC RX01 drive and the box of floppies that I have
> > with it are 8 inch single sided single density. Are 8" hard
> > sectored floppies compatible with these?
>
>Hard and Soft sectored disks are never compatible.
Ah, never say never, my friend! ;-)
I know little about 8" floppies, but I know that Apple ][ 5.25" drives
(which used GCR encoding, IIRC) could use hard or soft sector floppies. It
actually wrote an "index blip" (for lack of the correct term) on the disk
itself during format & used that instead of any physical hole(s) in the disk.
Just my $0.000000000000002,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Received on Thu Jun 03 2004 - 12:25:20 BST