[Coco] Re: Floppy access from within XP
Neil Morrison
neilsmorr at hotpop.com
Mon Jan 17 22:42:24 EST 2005
----- Original Message -----
From: "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.net>
> Neil Morrison wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Torsten Dittel" <Torsten at Dittel.info>
> >
> > Pretty much all 512 bytes AFAIK. I don't think that was changed from
MS-DOS
> > 1.0
>
> How quickly things are forgotten :-)
>
> Support for sector sizes from 128 bytes up to possibly 1K or was in the
> original specification.
But ISTR that this necessitated alteration of a table in RAM, and reversing
the change afterwards. This is what most 'SuperDisk like' utilities do,
AFAIK.
N
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