Date   : Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:33:16 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Acorn SCSI board arbitration

>Message-ID: <4624E902.4080009@...>
 
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...> wrote:
> Is it worth it, given that the ROM code's all geared around a fixed sector
> size of 256 bytes? I suspect that the software's more of a trouble than
> hacking the hardware would be.
 
Annoyingly, the floppy code can access 256, 512, 1024-byte sector
sizes, but the hard drive code can't. I've imaged MDFS floppy
disks on my Master; they have five sectors of 1024 bytes on each
track.
 
The file system itself is based around 256-byte sectors, but that
is a different matter.
 
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