Extracting CDOS and CP/M) files

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Fri Oct 12 11:09:22 CDT 2007


> >Now that 22Disk and the rest of the tools have been exonerated, we can
> >concentrate on ways to read the hard to read sectors - a ubiquitous
> >problem with Cromemco disks.

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, M H Stein wrote:
> Admittedly a problem when trying to read their disks with today's crippled
> controllers, but their use of a common SD Track 0 meant that without any
> . . .
> It all just looks different from today's PC-centric perspective.

No complaint about the idea of minimal first sector.
The specific problem that I was referring to is the incompatability with
trying to read Cromemco diskettes using an NEC 765 type controller, which
needs a larger index gap, resulting problems reading the first sector
of each track.




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