From: Spiro Trikaliotis (ml-cbmhackers_at_trikaliotis.net)
Date: 2005-05-08 14:51:48
Hello again,
* On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 10:36:34AM +0200 I wrote:
> > >I have not checked any disk, but are you sure about 100+ bytes?
> >
> > Again - to be sure I would have to take the bit image, which I didn't
> > but I quoted the same source, which I thought to be reliable.
>
> Well, "sometime", I will do this test. If this is true, the probing
> routine of the drive is not very good, despite the fact that it is very
> slow.
Ok, I had a look into both the probing routines of the 1541 drive and
the 1571 drive. You are right, they both do lousy jobs in spreading the
sectors over the track, thus, so much bytes are not unlikely.
"Our" probing formatter is much better (and faster!) ;-)
Regards,
Spiro.
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