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Re: Track/sector staggering



mobrien@netcom.com (Michael O'Brien) wrote:
>How were sectors staggered from track to track under DOS?  Most emulators
>I've seen pretend that sector 1 on track 1 is physically adjacent to sector
>1 on track 2, etc., but I doubt that this was really the case.

The physical sector order on each track is 0 7 E 6 D 5 C 4 B 3 A 2 9 1 8 F.

>Also, do fast versions of DOS (like DiversiDOS) stagger differently?

I haven't noticed anything different in Pronto-Dos.  Besides, fast versions
of DOS seemed to stay fast if you put in a disk formatted while regular DOS
was in memory.