Re: Looking for a Micro SCI disk controller

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Eric Smith" <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com> wrote in message
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: "Bill Garber" writes:
: > Are DOS 3.2 all 13 sector disks?
:
: Short answer: "yes".
:
: Longer answer: "usually".  I used DOS 3.2.1 with a Corvus 5 MB
hard
: drive and a Sorrento Valley Associates 8-inch floppy controller
back
: when those were new, and neither used 13 sectors per track.
:
: I've never seen DOS 3.1, 3.2 or 3.2.1 used with 5.25-inch
floppy disks
: with other than 13 sectors per track.  That was the natively
supported
: format, and the only format that was supported on the Disk ][
at the
: time.

I thank you for the "Long and the Short of it" 8)

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