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- From: doug.cotton@the-spa.com (Doug Cotton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: C1571 and "flippies"
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 10:41:14 -0500
- Organization: Creative Micro Designs, Inc.
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- In article <4g9mng$oeo@tor.abc.se>, dat95pkn@idt.mdh.se wrote:
-
- > I've noticed that disks that are formatted as two separate sides on a C1571
- > using the U0>H0 and U0>H1 commands to select side, cannot be read as
- > "flippies" by a C1541, or even the C1571 itself, and also the other way
- > around.
- >
- > How is this? Isn't the same format used on both sides?
-
- Think about it. If you flip the disk over, it will be spinning in the direction
- opposite to that in which it was formatted.
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- Doug Cotton
- E-mail: doug.cotton@the-spa.com
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