On 2013-09-18, at 15:04, Justin wrote: > I understand using it for speed up, but in context of archiving old floppies, I thought that the need for reading the whole track at once was driven by not being able to seek to a specific location, so for the copy protection systems that used unusual formatting, it was not possible to perfectly read them… so if you read the entire track at once, you would be able to capture everything regardless of funky alignment? In the context of archiving copy-protected formats, there are some true experts available here, but - right - I guess that if one deals with low-level non-standard formats then the track buffer can also be useful to buffer the raw data the way the r/w head sees it. This does not solve track to track alignment though, of course. -- SD! Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2013-09-18 14:01:54
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