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Re: please help--tracks, sectors, VTOC, and disk geometry

Subject: Re: please help--tracks, sectors, VTOC, and disk geometry
From: Mark Percival <mark@syndicomm.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:03:50 -0500
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mkirschenbaum@gmail.com wrote:

>No, the track indicated is actually *hex* 16, decimal 22 . . . so there
>should be no good data between tracks 23 and 34. I have good data at 33
>and 34.

The only thing I can think of is that perhaps there is a program on that
disk that bypasses DOS to read data from the disk.  I think programs like
Lode Runner did this to read the next level layout.  The benefit to doing
it this way is speed.

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