Grrr - !%#*^@# Kaypro!

[Fred Cisin]

On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Dave Dunfield wrote:
> Tried ImageDisk on some Kaypro disks this morning...
> Buggers recorded side1 as additional sectors of side0.
> The different set of sector numbers didn't bother
> ImageDisk, but it had a bit of a tantrum with the Head
> ids which didn't match the physical head selection.

Quite common :-(
765 insists on accurate sector headers;
WD 179x can ignore the head # field in the sector headers.
The Kaypro won't even mind reading/writing a disk,
if you FORMAT it with a 765 using valid sector headers!


> I can imagine that someone somewhere does weird things
> with the Cylinder ids on a track as well ...

Rare.  I've only seen it a few times.


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