[Coco] hybrid CoCo-CP/M disk

[William Astle]

Robert Gault wrote:
> Willard Goosey wrote:
>> <snip>
>> There is some wasted space, as group 0x4a starts on track 17, sector
>> 17, and continues for six sectors into track 18, but that's not my
>> fault, 8 sector groups just don't come out even on 18 sector/track
>> disks.
>> <snip>
>>
>> Willard
> 
> Not sure what you mean in the above by "group 0x4a". If that's gran $4a, 
> it would be at track 38 sector 1. Whichever gran value it is (assuming 
> it is a gran value) there are 9 sectors per gran and two grans per track 
> on a Coco disk. Track 17, the Coco directory track, is not included in 
> the gran numbering nor does it appear in the allocation table, T17S2.
> 

He was referring to the CP/M disk format, not the CoCo disk format.

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