Re: Is it a hard or soft sectored disk?

From: Spiro Trikaliotis (ml-cbmhackers_at_trikaliotis.net)
Date: 2005-11-01 22:34:07

Hello,

* On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 07:54:59PM +0100 Rainer Buchty wrote:
 
> I hardly ever used 5.25" HD disks and therefore memory might be
> tricking me, but shouldn't they have an extra notch (just like the
> "writeable" notch on the disk's side) on the bottom of the disk, so
> that HD drives can distinguish them from DD disks?

No, this is only true for 3,5" disks.

Regards,
   Spiro.

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