8" hard sectored floppies

From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Thu Jun 3 17:13:04 2004

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 10:25, Roger Merchberger wrote:

> >Hard and Soft sectored disks are never compatible.
>
> Ah, never say never, my friend! ;-)

I believe the ubiquituous NEC 765 (et al) does its "index" on read by
scanning for the 0th sector ID (which is 1 :-) The index hole is only
needed for formatting, and that only for compatiblity.
Received on Thu Jun 03 2004 - 17:13:04 BST