Date   : Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:19:56 +0100
From   : adsb@... (Andrew Benham)
Subject: Working out disk sizes...

Jules Richardson wrote:

> Armed with a BBC that's both DFS and ADFS-capable, what's the most painless 
> way of working out the geometry of an unknown floppy:

I'd look at the start of track 0, head 0, sector 2.
If that starts "<random byte>Hugo", then look@... 0, head 0,
sector 6.  If that ends "Hugo<random byte>" then it's very likely
that you're looking at an ADFS disk.

-- 
Andrew Benham           adsb@...       
Southgate, London N14, United Kingdom

The gates in my computer are AND OR and NOT, not "Bill".