On 07/18/2018 09:03 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > Aha! Interesting. So it's not actually able to be read as if it were a > diskette? It's sort of hijacking the drive as an alternative I/O > medium, pulsing data at a stationary drive head, ignoring rotation and > track positioning?
That's essentially it. The device does spew out a dummy boot sector if it's not interacting with the driver software. But yes, essentially a (rather inefficient) serial interface. On the plus side, there's no seek timing. --Chuck
