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From: jjl@earthquake.Berkeley.EDU (Jason J. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Block <-> Sector
Keywords: track
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Date: 30 Nov 89 00:47:23 GMT
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In article <2572@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> cs225202@umbc5.umbc.edu.UUCP (Sang J. Moon) writes:
>Does anyone know how to convert a block position on a diskette to a
>track/sector notation?

In Beneath Apple ProDOS, they have a table for converting from track/sector
to block numbers (on page 3-17).  Then there's another table in the July 1985
issue of Open-Apple (page 55) that gives track/sector to block conversions,
which differs slightly from the one in Beneath Apple ProDOS in that it
doesn't use physical disk sectors (Beaneath Apple ProDOS's chart does).

jjl@ocf.berkeley.edu