Date   : Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:37:55 +0100
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: Re-using floppies

On 17 April 2010 17:03, Mike Tomlinson <mike@...> wrote:

> I thought it was simpler than that: the Amiga formatted tracks 81 and
> 82, and you had to use drives that would allow the heads to be stepped
> that far. ?Thus if you used a PC drive capable of reaching 81 and 82 you
> could read Amiga disks.

No, the Amiga doesn't have any inter-sector gaps, allowing it to store
880K per disk using 11 512-byte sectors per track. The lack of the
gaps means that it's practically impossible for a PC's floppy
controller to read the disks.

I had a driver on my Amiga (called diskspare.device) that allowed 960K
to be stored on a double-density disk.

-- 
Alex Taylor