Hello Jens,

have a look at this link:
http://www.df.lth.se/~pi/compis/files/ftp.mayn.de/pub/cpm/systems/cpm-68/cdos3/cdos3/cfg_utl/format.c.txt

Uwe.


> At 16:54 13.08.2005 -0800, Jaap van Ganswijk wrote:

>>Just to make sure: Does that mean that you can already
>>read all the sectors from the disk?

> Yes, I can. I'm using the Catweasel floppy controller to do that, as normal
> floppy controllers can't read FM disks any more. These VERSAdos disks are
> even a weird mixture of FM and MFM sectors, with 16 128-byte FM sectors on
> track 0/side 0, and 16 256-byte MFM sectors on all other tracks. I haven't
> seen an FM-track on a 3.5" disk before, and I've seen *many* disks in the
> past nine years. Luckily, the checksums are all CRC-16 according to CCITT,
> so once I found out about the basic format, the rest was easy.



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