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Apple II disk formats
- Subject: Apple II disk formats
- From: Slor <semaj@rols.ten>
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:22:33 -0500
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: SlorNet
- User-agent: Xnews/2006.03.14
- Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.sys.apple2:13939
This may be somewhat related to the thread on rescuing old diskettes, but
probably not enough to clutter that one up. :) Can anyone here give me the
exact format layout for Apple II 3.5" and 5.25" disks? As an example of
what I'm looking for, take a portion of the standard fdprm file on many
Linux systems:
# size sec/t hds trk stre gap rate spec1 fmt_gap
360/360 720 9 2 40 0 0x2A 0x02 0xDF 0x50
1200/1200 2400 15 2 80 0 0x1B 0x00 0xDF 0x54
360/720 720 9 2 40 1 0x2A 0x02 0xDF 0x50
720/720 1440 9 2 80 0 0x2A 0x02 0xDF 0x50
720/1440 1440 9 2 80 0 0x2A 0x02 0xDF 0x50
360/1200 720 9 2 40 1 0x23 0x01 0xDF 0x50
720/1200 1440 9 2 80 0 0x23 0x01 0xDF 0x50
1440/1440 2880 18 2 80 0 0x1B 0x00 0xCF 0x6C
It spells out the fine details of each common disk format and allows Linux
to attempt guesses at what sort of disk you may be trying to read. Can
anyone provide corresponding specs (even if you only have part of the info)
for Apple II formats?
thanks!
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