[Coco] Re: Disk controller summary?

James Dessart james at skwirl.ca
Fri Mar 11 15:38:14 EST 2005



On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Roger Merchberger wrote:

> The guys over on the classiccmp mailing list would like to talk to you... ;-)
> 
> They're discussing just this very topic WRT backing up and restoring 
> classic media (floppy primarily).
> 
> Offtopically, would this technique work with GCR, too?

I'm pretty sure it would, as long as you can change the speed of rotation.
Oh wait, that's just Apple disks... :)

I'm not sure how GCR is implemented, specifically, and did just find out
how MFM works yesterday ;), so my comments should be taken with a grain of
salt. :)

James




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