Re: Apple II Disk Drive Question

["Jack Tseng" <tseng4@hotmail.com>]

Is it faster than Commodore 1541 or Atari XF551???

Jack

"Bryan Parkoff" <none@nospam.net> wrote in message 
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> "David Empson" <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote in message 
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>> Jack Tseng <tseng4@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>> How many sectors and track are max in Apple II Disk Drive?
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>> I assume you are talking about the original 5.25" drive (Disk ][) and
>> later revised models (UniDisk 5.25, Disk //c and Apple 5.25 Drive), not
>> the 3.5" drives.
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>> The original format, as used by DOS 3.2.1 and earlier, was 256 bytes per
>> sector, 13 sectors per track, 35 tracks per disk (single sided), for a
>> total capacity of 116480 bytes.
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>> DOS 3.3 and Apple II Pascal introduced the 16-sector format (also used
>> by ProDOS), which involved some improvements in the logic state
>> sequencer on the disk controller card.  The increase in sectors per
>> track brought the total capacity to 143360 bytes.
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>> Most Apple 5.25" drives are capable of a few more tracks, so a
>> nonstandard disk could be created on a specific drive with 36 to 40
>> tracks, but it might not be readable on all drives.  One of my drives
>> managed 39 tracks but I haven't done a wide survey.
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>> Some third party drives could manage 40 tracks consistently.
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>>> Is it MFM or GCR
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>> GCR.  Address fields in both formats are written using 4-and-4 encoding
>> (effectively FM, with interleaved clock and data bits).
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>> On 13-sector disks, data fields are written using 5-and-3 encoding with
>> a 32-byte lookup table of valid disk bytes.  Each byte must have bit 7
>> set and no adjacent zero bits.
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>> On 16-sector disks, data fields are written using 6-and-2 encoding with
>> a 64-byte lookup table of valid disk bytes.  The rules are relaxed
>> somewhat to allow a single pair of adjacent zero bits in the byte.
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>>> ? How fast is it? Max bps?
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>> Rotation speed is about 300 rpm.  Data rate is nominally 250 kbps (4
>> microseconds per bit), derived from the Apple II CPU clock which runs at
>> about 1.023 MHz, with one bit every 4 clock cycles, so about 255.75
>> kbps.
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>> -- 
>> David Empson
>> dempson@actrix.gen.nz
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> David,
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>    I have a question.  If RPM is to be between 280 and 310.  Can you 
> please tell how many KBps per second will be.  For example -- 300 RPM is 
> 250KBps. 280 RPM may be 220KBps.  310 RPM may be 280KBps.  Please list 
> KBps each RPM like 280, 281, 282, and so forth until 310.  I am curious.
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> Bryan Parkoff
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