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Re: Track/sector staggering
- Subject: Re: Track/sector staggering
- From: mnementh@netcom.com (David R. Villegas)
- Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 21:05:00 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.emulators.apple2, comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Ministry of Love - Room 101
- References: <mobrienCrnvsG.My6@netcom.com>
- Xref: nntp.gmd.de comp.emulators.apple2:503 comp.sys.apple2:44529
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.