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Re: More on 6809 board.



On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Alex Freed wrote:

Also can somebody explain the .DO/.PO thing to me? I looked at the Beneath DOS and Beneath ProDOS and they claim that both DOS 3.3 and ProDOS do not have any physical interleave but have (different) logical interleave. So the physical sector are consecutive. Fine. Then why 2 different formats? If physical data is written sequentially then the OS can apply whatever physical to logical translation it wants, right?

-Alex.

That's the thing.

DO images are read in the sector order seen from DOS, and PO images are read in teh sector order seen from ProDOS. This is after the logical interleaving is applied.

-uso.