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From: charles@c3pe.UUCP
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Subject: (Revised) Wanted:  Disk enhancement info (512-byte sectors??)
Message-ID: <141@c3pe.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Jun-86 08:45:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: c3pe.141
Posted: Thu Jun 12 08:45:39 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Jun-86 19:22:25 EDT
References: <139@c3pe.UUCP>
Reply-To: charles@c3pe.UUCP (Charles Green)
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Organization: C3, Inc., Reston, VA
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Keywords: enhancement reprogrammable custom

[new spray from Raid - birth control for line eaters!]

(I cancelled the previous submission due to a technical error shown below.)

(New addition)
Do any of the "other" drives (Ra~a, I~dus) allow 512-byte sectors?

Has anyone been able to use any of the disk enhancements being sold for Atari
1050 disk drives to read/write 40-track double-density format with nine
512-byte sectors per track (MS-DOS/PC-DOS format)?  I understand that at least
some of the units allow the drive controller to be reprogrammed in RAM, and one
would think that this could then be accomplished, even if you had to modify
the SIO (easy enough with an XL; just "bank-switch" the high memory to RAM,
copy the OS up there, and carve away!)

In article <139@c3pe.UUCP> charles@c3pe.UUCP (Charles Green) writes:
> ... allow the drive controller to be reprogrammed in ROM ...
						       ^^^      NAK!!!
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