Re: Disk II 70 Tracks

["Circus" <circus123@hotmal.com>]

The main problem is that the head can not write densly enough to use the
half tracks, there is a small amount of mangetism on the half-tracks from
the normal tracks that are next to them. Using the half track would likely
scramble data on the normal tracks. Sombody please correct me if I am using
the term "half-track" incorrectly.

Some copy protection schemes use these tracks to create non-standard disk
formats and other schemes.

Circus

"Bryan Parkoff" <BParkoff@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
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>     Previous post states that odd tracks are not used.  Do you know what
odd
> tracks contain garbage data?  Someone said that we may be able to modify
DOS
> 3.3 to handle 280KB instead of 140KB.  Is it true that Disk II Family has
an
> ability to read/write both odd-even tracks in full 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?
>
> --
> Yours Truly,
>
> Bryan Parkoff
> BParkoff@satx.rr.com
>
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