On 9/8/23 15:00, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote: > Hi Chuck, > > The drive is a Qume Qumetrak 242 so I assume soft sector? I'm open to > correction. > Mostly. Most drives can, with the proper logic be made to read and write hard-sector disks. You just don't get separate SECTOR/ and INDEX/ outputs.
I read hard sector floppies in an 842, for example and it lacks the hard-sector support logic. On the other hand, my Siemens FDD 200 have the logic, along with a configurable sector divider (32,16,8 sectors) as well as an optional data separator. There is a lot of variation in 8" drives. --Chuck
