On 07/04/2016 01:43 AM, pete wrote: > > Acorn formatter s/w doesn't write the optional "index mark" before the > first sector so some PCs have trouble understanding Acorn disks. >
If that's a problem on a PC (today it rarely is, but it was in the days before the "A" revision of the 8272/765 came out, it's a simple matter to simply block the index signal off the drive cable--it's not needed for sector reads. --Chuck
