Re: Is it a hard or soft sectored disk?

From: Rainer Buchty (rainer_at_buchty.net)
Date: 2005-11-02 13:05:57

>Actually quite the opposite would be more true here... most of the DD
>diskettes in my collection were 1541 formatted (single head) and as
>such have the second write-enable notch cut out, while HD ones are only
>msdos formatted (two heads) and have only single notch... :-)

Those were the times. The first ones I cut out with an exacto knife, 
then I just used a normal hole puncher generating rather disgusting 
looking disks... Finally, I got a proper disk notcher which later got 
replaced by electronics (fooling the light sensor).

Rainer (now why do I suddenly feel so old...)



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