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[Fred Cisin]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Allison wrote:
> >>Maybe... there are caveats on that.  Technically a sector number of 0
> >>should not be used.
> . . .
> Yes, NEC never guarenteed that it would work or continue to work.  There were
> a few chips used in PCs (Not fully 765 compatable) that were questionable
> around this.
> I also tried it and found it worked. However IBM 3740 and later Floppy specs
> had reasons for not using 0th sector.   As they say by spec it's wrong
> otherwise it works.

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