Re: upgrading CBM-3040?

From: Spiro Trikaliotis <*ml-cbmhackers_at_trikaliotis.net*> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 21:35:00 +0100 Message-ID: <20171117203500.GB6593@hermes.local.trikaliotis.net> · ml-cbmhackers_at_trikaliotis.net

Hello,

* On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 02:50:57AM +0000 William Levak wrote:
> 
> The differences are in the "user's manual for CBM 5 1/4-inch dual floppy
> disk drives", october 1980. The 2040/3040 has one more sector on tracks
> 18-24. The 4040 drive can handle that.  The BAM header has a different
> version identifier, so the drive will not write to it.

Thank you!

So my assumption was wrong.

I forgot that track 18 does not count in the number of free blocks,
thus, from the 7 extra blocks, only 6 are counted as free blocks.

That's why I was wrong in my previous mail.

Regards,
Spiro.

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