Disc Imaging / Kryoflux - Acorn ADFS 800KB

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Sat Jul 2 16:38:04 CDT 2016


On 07/02/2016 02:15 PM, Peter Coghlan wrote:

> 
> The original ADFS had 16 sectors of 256 bytes per track. However, it 
> appears that more recent ADFS formats use 5 sectors of 1024 bytes.
> There are more details here:
> 
> http://mdfs.net/Docs/Comp/Disk/Format/Formats

Since I don't have an Acorn, I'm a bit in the dark about all of this
talk about Kyroflux.   Wouldn't it be simpler to use a legacy PC floppy
controller?

I've copied RX02 disks using the Catweasel.  Tim Mann wrote a nice set
of utilities to do just that.

--Chuck



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