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- From: doug.cotton@the-spa.com (Doug Cotton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: C1571 and "flippies"
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 18:49:58 -0500
- Organization: Creative Micro Designs, Inc.
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- In article <151@ppse.win-uk.net>, ppieroni@ppse.win-uk.net (Chip Pieroni) wrote:
-
- > If you reveresed the top head then in effect it would be
- > the same as the drive reversing, as it then reads from right--left
- > (Exactly the same as reversing the disk direction.) as opposed to it
- > reading from left---right. HOWEVER, how could it properly use the
- > drive if it couldn't control the motor ?
- >
- >
- > After all, the 1541 writes the disk sides as completly
- > seperate (And would have to be used as such, but not at the same
- > time, as the top head would want another part of the top disk than
- > the bottom !) not like a 1571.
- >
- >
- > Anyway...
- >
- >
- > Cheers !
- >
- >
- > Chip Pieroni..
-
- This is obviously a prime example of not thinking something through. Look,
- you can't resolve the problem by spinning the head itself around -- all
- the head does is align magnetic particles one direction or another. It's
- like noting that while facing north and throwing a glass of water into the
- air with a wind out of the west that the water goes east, then assuming
- that if you face south the water will go west... sorry, it just doesn't
- work that way.
-
- The data on a disk is a serial stream of magnetic bits in a particular
- order, and to get around the problem what you really have to do is write
- your own GCR and DOS routines to write the data backwards. In other words,
- you begin with the end of a track and write until you get to the beginning
- of the track, including all sync marks, head gaps, tail gaps, and data
- blocks. This is actually doable, but I suspect most of us would rather
- flip a disk than spend a few weeks rewriting the DOS to do things
- backwards.
-
-
- Doug Cotton
- E-mail: doug.cotton@the-spa.com
-
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