Re: upgrading CBM-3040?

From: Francesco Messineo <*francesco.messineo_at_gmail.com*> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:29:51 +0100 Message-ID: <CAESs-_xD5tCz_M6Rsoi8NCV5FDn97gt+PTnqtG60YEPAS06wxg@mail.gmail.com> · francesco.messineo_at_gmail.com

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Spiro Trikaliotis
<ml-cbmhackers@trikaliotis.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> * On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 03:13:06AM +0000 William Levak wrote:
>
>> A 4040 should read 2040 disks, but you will not be able to write to them.
>
> Is the difference between the two formats known and documented?

http://www.6502.org/users/andre/petindex/drives/drives.html

http://www.6502.org/users/andre/petindex/drives/writegap.html

according to these pages, [23]040 DOS has more blocks in one track zone.

Frank

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