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From: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Reading 1581 disks
Message-ID: <1249@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
Date: 26 Sep 90 18:27:04 GMT
References: <1990Sep21.155300.25903@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <26fac73f-2c9c.1comp.sys.amiga-1@tronsbox.xei.com> <1990Sep24.173635.2012@bushido.uucp> <439@cbmger.UUCP>
Reply-To: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn
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In article <439@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>Is this REALLY true? With all the track-to-track read speed changes in
>the 1541 format? How do they manage that? Is the data density on a 1541
>so small compared to an Amiga or PC that these variations can be easily
>followed by the decoding software? Sounds very interesting.

Hardly to believe. I've seen a product called Disk-2-disk that tries
to do so but you could read about half of the disk only (and with
some disks less than 25%). They could prepare a 1514 disk that other
parts were allocated (by writing to the BAM).


Regards,
-- 
Michael van Elst
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