Re: inside .nib?

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <3997C594.8733971A@mclink.it>,
Enrico Colombini  <erix_togliere_@mclink.it> wrote:
 
>> Raw data, consisting of $1A00 nybbles per track.  No header or
>> anything else, just nibbles.
> 
> Thanks. Starting at a random point, without trying to locate a presumed
> inter-sector gap?
 
That would not be a good idea!  The start should of course be in a
presumed inter-sector gap.
 
> I am not sure $1A00 will give enough sector overlap to guarantee a fully
> readable track in case of a slightly below-standard-speed recording.
> Besides, I suppose it can't do anything in case of a single track-long
> sector: that would require reading the whole track at least twice.
 
Why?  Even a track containing one single very long sector will have
an inter-sector gap, between the beginning and the end of the sector.
Locate that, and start the .nib file track there.  Of coruse to be
sure you're successful, a manual examination of the track, to
determine where that single sector starts, may be necessary.
 
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