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Offline HenryCase

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Re: Amiga floppy project status
« on: November 19, 2007, 11:58:55 PM »
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I need this! I really hope you get it working fully.
I thought the main reason you can't read Amiga disks in a PC floppy drive was due to the drive speed. Is that right? What issues do you have to overcome?
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Re: Amiga floppy project status
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2007, 01:49:25 AM »
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The main reason you can't read amiga disks inside a PC is because an IBM PC floppy controller is looking for sector gaps.  An Amiga writes tracks with no sector gaps whatsoever, and literally had sector1-sector2-sector3 etc.


I'm assuming that IBM PC floppy drives read the first sector of an Amiga disk as usual then flag up an error when it can't find a sector gap? Or does the PC drive stop working when it doesn't recognise the file format?
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