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- X-Comment-To: CARLO TETA
- From: Pontus Berg <Pontus.Berg@p71.anet.canit.se>
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 96 11:35:06 +0100
- Subject: 1571
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- In a message of 08 Feb 96 CARLO TETA wrote to DENISE FIELDS:
-
- DF>> OK, another dumb question. Does the 1571 read both sides without
- DF>> flopping a disk?? know some PC's do that, and yes i read my 'book',
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- CT> Yes you do not have to touch the disk and it will read both sides
-
- This is true, but only if the disk was formatted this way! If you have a disk
- formatted on the -41 on both sides individually you can only read the front side
- of it on a -71.
-
- This is natural if you think of how it works. The -71 doesn't change the
- rotation-direction of the disk in dual side mode so the back side is actually
- _read_ and _written_ _backwards_ compared to if it had been flipped and
- formatted in single side mode.
-
- Think of an LP (if people remember them ;-) and think of how it would have been
- if you had dual pickups. There you can visually follow the track of the pickup
- and youΣll fild that the pickup wouldn't in fact got forward to the center of
- the LP but would go backwards and jump of the outer edge!
-
- /Pontus Berg, Bacchus@FairLight.COM
-
- ... I tape my C64 together when I go to parties. After all I'm straight,
- and wouldn't want to screw it!
- (Pontus)
-