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Re: 800k disks possible at all?
In <4nvbn2$2gl@pacifica.access.ch>, alcastellosa@access.ch (Beat Kuert) writes:
>While the 880k is true I'm 99% sure that Amiga did indeed use variable
>speed drives, are you sure about that?
Don't you hate it when that 1% gets you? The Amiga did indeed use single
speed 300rpm drives.
The Amiga got the extra space by doing away with physical sector gaps. The
entire track was read in and sent to the OS which decoded the raw MFM or
GCR data and the OS then divided the track into logical sectors.
While it may be possible to create an 800k disk format, it won't be
compatible with the *Mac* 800k disk format.
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mdaymon
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