Re: Disk II 70 Tracks

[jon@i-manila.com (Jon Co)]

Using the above logic, hypothetically, can one transplant the head of
a 3.5 drive whose width would be thin enough so that half tracks dont
bleed into the even tracks?
"GarberStreet Enterprises" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<8fCdnaBqv_g7d8ijXTWcqQ@comcast.com>...
> > > that it may be capable to
> > > handle 280KB.  Is it possible that even tracks might overwrite odd
>  tracks
> > > that will not be supported?  Please advise?
> >
> 
> Everyone is correct in their information, I do not dispute that,
> however, it does not answer the initial question.
> 
> You can't write on the odd tracks and get a 280k disk with
> the firmware as it is, no, but you could in effect force all the
> phases to stop on all their locations with software. Now, as
> was stated in previous posts, there would be a problem with
> written data bleeding over onto the "half-tracks" as the head
> as I am told in many FAQ's on Apple drives, is larger than
> it could have been for one reason or another. I have in fact
> recently attempted to write on 0-3 stopping on all phase
> marks, resulting in data becoming unreadable. It may be
> possible to stop on every 3rd phase and the resulting disk
> would be 210k, I haven't tried this, but feel free to do so,
> anyone who may be interested. I may try it when I get some
> more free time, but for now, I really don't care. I have about
> 15 disks of 5.25 size of mine, and 10 that I bought with
> games on them and that's about all I'm going to probably have.
> Most of what I have now is on 3.5" 800k disks and much of
> it is now on 1.44 MS-DOS disks, then installed onto hard
> drive and zip drive. I am also in the process of compiling
> a CD, and if anyone has anything in particular they'd like
> on it. Please let me know and better yet, email me a copy,
> or send a disk to me. All the manuals I can find and utils
> plus some disk images for emu's will be added. It might
> be weeks, months, even a year until I get it done, but it
> will be done. Anyway, this is getting rather long, so I will
> sign out for now, and I hope someone does write a util
> to write on every 3rd track, I think that would be kool.
> Thanks for your time,
> 
> Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises
> http://garberstreet.netfirms.com
> 
> 
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