Re: Disk transfers help please

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Andy McFadden" <fadden@fadden.com> wrote in message
news:LZbAe.3697$p%3.22756@typhoon.sonic.net...
: In comp.sys.apple2 ApH <bidulecornu@hotmail.com> wrote:
: > You are probably using a high-density 5.25" drive, which requires an
: > index signal to actually return data.
: > You have 2 options here: either you try to find a low-density 5.25"
: > which works (not all drives work, I think mine is an Epson drive), or
: > you cut a small part of the plastic casing of the disks so that the
: > index hole can be "seen" by the drive on the second side. There should
: > be a hole at the same spot as on the first side when you flip the disk.
: > Well, it means actually two cuts, on both sides of the disk, and on the
: > opposite of the "official" index hole. This is probably the easiest and
: > quickest method.
:
: Isn't this a two-sided drive?  If so, why can't it use the second head
: to read the back side?

Surface of the second side is spinning the wrong direction.
When you flip it, the index hole is missing. Some disks do
have the index hole on both sides, but they are very early
disks used in single sided drives.

Apple II Forever, Apple II Together
Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez
---------------------------------------------
Web Site - http://garberstreet.netfirms.com
HOME OF THE RAM-4-GS
---------------------------------------------
Email - willy46pa@comcast.net
---------------------------------------------