On 1/19/2023 8:23 PM, Chris via cctalk wrote:
  I have to be honest at this point. A disk srive in some sense "responds" in 
some sense to changes in flux density around the surface of disks. So what is the GW 
picking up, other then what the drive is already reading? It's an interim device that 
sits between the drive amd the cable. It makes use of signals that travel between the 
drive and fdc.

Does it read a disk better then say Diskimage can?

I think folks are being too MFM-centric in their responses to this question.

"ImageDisk can identify, read and write any disk format that a PC floppy controller can handle — so *it can do most FM/MFM formats*, but not Amiga disks with odd timing, or Commodore 8-bit disks with GCR encoding. "

GW can do the same, but can also handle GCR encoded disks, the Amiga disks noted above, and it might be able to do older Apple Mac 720K disks

It's really not fair to compare ImageDisk to GW.  ImageDisk is limited to the configuration options and assumptions built into the FDC. GW has no such restriction.

Jim

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