"Bounce buffer" copyright [was Re: flash (or ide) storage for unibus 11?]

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Sun Nov 29 15:19:23 CST 2015


>> it physically laid out the 10 sectors as 0 2 3 4 6 8 1 3 5 7 9 so that 
>> when reading sequentially, you had half a disk rotation to get your act 
>> together to read the next sector. This turned out to be only a small 
>> performance win, and was a pita for interoperability,

On Sun, 29 Nov 2015, Tapley, Mark wrote:
> ….but, at least you had a functionally redundant sector 3!
> :-)

That way, a system that could handle 1:1 interleave would get one version 
of sector 3, while one that could not handle 1:1 interleave would get the 
other one, and you could have different code for the two kinds of 
machines.    :-)


But, that has 11 sectors on the track
Were they 512 bytes each?
Was it 8"? 5.25"?  SD?, DD?, "HD"?


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