Re: Option Board is NOT a Disk II emulator!

[sl14@crux4.cit.cornell.edu (S. Lee)]

In article <sinykal.645.000244A0@cyberspace.org>,
Scott Earnest <sinykal@cyberspace.org> wrote:
>In article <32002B10.2CBB@mc.net> "anomaly3@mc.net" <anomaly3@mc.net> writes:
>
>>The Copy II PC Option Board does *NOT* emulate the Disk II controller 
>>card in any way! All it does is allow the disk drive to read Macintosh 
>>800K disks, and read and/or duplicate IBM and Apple diskettes, with or 
>>without write-protection. It also will *NOT* let you "read in" the 
>>information off of a diskette and save it as an image file.
>
[...]
>
>Then there's also the problem of copying the back side of disks.  I'm not 
>sure the solution's been found to that one yet.  Cutting new timing holes, 
>using "naked" disks, or transplanting disks don't strike me as good 
>solutions [...]

If you have to post-process the image anyway, couldn't you bit-reverse the
tracks on the back side of the disk?

Stephen