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From: johnm@dartvax.UUCP (John Meier)
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Subject: re: hard sectored vs. soft sectored floppies
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Date: Sat, 26-Nov-83 02:55:52 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 26 02:55:52 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Nov-83 03:49:18 EST
Organization: Dartmouth College
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I would like to disagree with the message  that compared hard sectored floppies
with atari cartridges.  As far as I knew, a hard sectored diskette was only
different from a soft sectored diskette because a hard sectored disk drive
required index holes at every sector whereas a soft sectored disk drive has
one index hole on the complete disk.  Old NorthStar drives were hard sectored
and they were definitel read/write.  The word soft probably came about because
you could put as many sectors as you wanted on a soft-sectored diskette, but
you could only put N sectors on a N hard sector diskette.
John Meier
Dartmouth College