From: Patrycjusz R. Łogiewa (silverdr_at_inet.com.pl)
Date: 2005-05-05 19:11:09
On 2005-05-05, at 08:45, Greg King wrote:
[...]
>>
>> The ROM formatter does it correctly -- it is the ROM "write block" job
>> routine that does it wrong. :-(
>
> Those comments suggest a possible answer to the original question:
>
> Maybe, the original "sector write" routine ended with the same code
> that
> the formatter routine still has. But then, maybe, CBM's engineers
> noticed
> that the end of a sector sometimes would overlap the beginning of the
> next
> sector far enough to confuse the drive's attempt to syncronize to that
> next
> sector.
Hm, isn't the "tail gap" provided just for that particular purpose?
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