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From: rcbamw@eutrc3.UUCP (m.waucomont)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: More on SIO
Message-ID: <633@eutrc3.UUCP>
Date: 1 May 89 11:45:04 GMT
References: <38936@bbn.COM> <604@eutrc3.UUCP> <4781@umd5.umd.edu>
Reply-To: rcbamw@eutrc3.UUCP (m.waucomont)
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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In article <4781@umd5.umd.edu> hans@umd5.umd.edu (Hans Breitenlohner) writes:
>In article <604@eutrc3.UUCP> rcbamw@eutrc3.UUCP (m.waucomont) writes:
>>To make things even worse, a PC drive uses the index hole of a disk to
>>determine which sector is the first of a track. The 1050 makes that sector
>>(about) twice as long... This should answer your third question...
>
>This is not quite accurate.  The PC (and most other reasonable disks) start

You're right Hans! But the point I tried to make in my article was to tell
Stan that it is not possible to control such features by modifying software
in the Atari. To do so, the software in the drive must be re-written.
Thanks for your reaction though.. I have learnt something :-)))

M. 'Mikki' Waucomont