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Re: Reading Apple2 floppies on a PC using Disk2FDI

Subject: Re: Reading Apple2 floppies on a PC using Disk2FDI
From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
Date: 09 Aug 2004 16:34:58 GMT
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corey_koltz asked:

>Can a disk image (*.dsk) be written back with Disk2FDI?

According to the documentation, this cannot be done because
the PC floppy controller interprets all "write" operations as
MFM, and the transitions written to disk therefore cannot be
sufficiently controlled.

-michael

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