Date   : Mon, 21 Oct 1991 14:15:16 GMT
From   : ecsgate!stat.appstate.edu!pembvax1.pembroke.edu!duck@mcnc.org
Subject: Re: general (Floppy Drives on the Xerox 820-II)

In article <Niqu02w164w@ijpc.UUCP>, ianj@ijpc.UUCP (Ian Justman) writes:

> The only soft-sectored drives that don't use the index/sector
> hole that I know of are Apple II, Commodore, and Atari.

Minor Point:
  Actually, C= does use the index/sector hole when performing the initial
format.  After that it uses some bytes that indicate the start and end of each
sector.

- Craig Taylor