Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

[Fred Cisin]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Steve Thatcher wrote:
> As for GCR, that would have been covered under etc... I am not familiar
> with GCR, but I would guess that it has to deal at least with physical
> tracks and heads. In this case, a track would consist of whatever the
> format needed plus the data blocks required for the track.

GCR would be represented in the same field that specifies FM, MFM, RLL,
etc.

But, GCR and RLL have multiple variants.  Even within Apple,
there are several mutually incompatible GCRs.