Date   : Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:43:48 +0100
From   : "Steve O'Leary" <navalenigma@...>
Subject: Re: Getting .SSD disk images onto a beeb...

>From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
>To: bbc-micro@...
>Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Getting .SSD disk images onto a beeb...
>Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:50:51 +0000
>
>Steve O'Leary wrote:
>>>From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
>>>To: bbc-micro@...
>>>Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Getting .SSD disk images onto a beeb...
>>>Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:05:57 +0000
>>
>>>That should get around 'problems' with the image file data being 
>>>'shorter' than the eventual target disk. It doesn't cope with 'holes' in 
>>>a disk; for that the PC side would have to be clever and pad out the data 
>>>it was sending
>>
>>Holes shouldn't be a problem as although logically there can be a hole 
>>there is still data in there that will just be sent by the PC as normal, 
>>it'll be junk perhaps but unimportant as it doesn't have a catalogue 
>>entry. To illustrate;
>
>Ahh, by holes I mean tracks or sectors that are totally missing though, say 
>due to original disk damage -

Oops, sorry, got the wrong end of the stick :)

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