On Jun 3, 10:20, Ashley Carder wrote:
> 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?
No, RX01 (and RX02) are soft-sectored.
Soft-sectored disks have one index hole punched near the centre, and an
optical sensor detects this once per revolution, indicating the logical
start-of-track. Hard-sectored disks have one hole per sector, and the
sensor detects these to indicate start-of-sector; the first sector is
distinguished because there's an extra hole (the index hole) punched
halfway between two sector holes.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Thu Jun 03 2004 - 13:22:35 BST