Date   : Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:12:51 -0700 (PDT)
From   : debounce@... (Greg Cook)
Subject: ADFS disk images

On Thursday, 17 September, 2009, 1:59 PM, me@... wrote:

> On 17 Sep 2009, at 13:09, Rob wrote:
> 
> > The standard ADFS disc image formats are indeed
> interleaved, so
> > sectors appear in the file in the order they are
> usually used by ADFS.
> > (Unlike DSD images, where DFS would normally use all
> of drive 0 then
> > all of drive 2 ..)
> 
> So, to rephrase my question slightly, can you tell from the
> file? 
> extension (assuming it has been set correctly) whether an
> ADFS disk? 
> image is interleaved or not?

They're all CHS interleaved except .ads and .adm, which are single sided.
.adl is the only one not in LBA order, and I prefer the extension .adm for
an LBA ordered ADFS-L image (representing a 160 track single sided disc),
though I rarely use it as interconversion is a Perl one-liner away.

Greg Cook
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