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From: arrom@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Pc files to Atari
Message-ID: <233@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Date: 11 Nov 88 19:53:09 GMT
References: <225@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <5023@whuts.att.com>
Reply-To: arrom@aplcen.UUCP (Ken Arromdee (600.429))
Organization: Johns Hopkins University/CPP, Laurel, MD
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>The PC's disks turn at 300 RPM vs. 288 RPM for the Atari.  I have found it
>impossible to write enhanced density disks on the PC without having the
>last sector on a track overlap the first.  The just isn't enough "room" to
>fit all those 128 byte sectors.
>I have no trouble reading and writing 256byte formats, e.g. PERCOM.

It was a true double density disk I tried it with, and not an enhanced
density disk.  And it still gave partial success...
--
"I don't care if you _did_ do it in a movie once, Gilligan is not breathing
through that reed!"

--Kenneth Arromdee (ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP, arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu,
	g49i0188@jhuvm.BITNET) (not arrom@aplcen, which is my class account)