Re: Disk transfers help please

["Charlie" <charlied at bboard dot SPAMcom>]

"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?

As Bill Garber mentioned the disk is spinning backwards.  Also, I've been 
told that the second head on a PC drive is not in line with the first one. 
This means that several tracks on the back side of an Apple disk can't be 
read by the second head.

Charlie