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From: treesh@bach.helios.nd.edu
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Subject: Re: 1581 disk drive
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Date: 2 Oct 90 17:26:57 GMT
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From what I know, the 1571 has MFM coding for use in CPM mode, but this
allows it to be able to read and write MS DOS disks with fancy software.
The 1541 (besides beig single sided) only supports GCR encoding with no way
to work with MFM disks.  Im not sure if the 1581 supports MFM or not, but   
it proabaly does.

ctfm