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- From: joek@cogs.sussex.ac.uk (Josef Karthauser)
- Subject: Re: Stupid Floppy Tricks.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.121606@cogs.sussex.ac.uk>
- Sender: joek@cogs (Josef Karthauser)
- Organization: University of Sussex
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 12:16:06 GMT
- Approved: ugjunk
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- > I think Mike meant "why can't you use a high-density disk in a
- > low-density drive (and get *low-density* storage on it)". And he
- > was on the right track with the answer; the magnetic coating on
- > the HD disk has a much higher remanence (or is it coercivity?)
- > which means that the magnetic flux produced by the low-density
- > drive heads is too weak to affect it (or at least, too weak to
- > make a reliable recording).
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- I discovered this quite by accident, but what's strange is that on 3 1/2"
- disks the problem doesn't seem to exist. The media is interchangable!
-
- ObDiskProtection: Using a 1770 disk chip, putting eleven sectors per track where
- the sector numbers were a Z80 program to unscramble the data once it had loaded.
- Try writing a Z80 proggie where each eleven bytes had to be different. Quite
- convienient really as the first byte, the boot sector, had to be $00 which is a
- nop.
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