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From: cww@ndmath.UUCP (Clarence W. Wilkerson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: CP/M->MSDOS problems
Summary: PC uses no skewing of sectors
Message-ID: <1211@ndmath.UUCP>
Date: 10 Sep 88 04:05:06 GMT
References: <8809091315.AA11136@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Math. Dept., Univ. of Notre Dame
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My guess, not having Commodore equipment is that the PC disks
you formatted on the Commodore had a built in skew factor. That is is,
that the order of the physical sectors was not the order of the logical
sectors. Many cp/m systems did this for dd rather than use a software
sectoring skew as on the 8" sd format. However, on a standard PC disk,
the order of the physical sectors is 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 9 whereas on your