Hi Marko, Marko Mäkelä schrieb: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:11:38PM -0400, MikeS wrote: > > An alternative explanation is along the lines of "Why climb a mountain? > Because it exists." or, as the Software Preservation Society people do say: To achiev better accuracy in preserving disks, because many of the flip-side originals were written that way. That way the index hole does not only synchronise the track start of the lower disk side, but also the track end of the upper side (track "end", because the upper side of flip-disk has to be written backwards). Don't know, if this _really_ matters in the end, but it's always better to look for it instead of training personal ignorance ;-) Womo -- ------ to obtain more infos about me, look up the page ------ ------ http://www.wmsr.de | wm (at) wmsr (dot) de ------ Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2011-09-21 22:00:26
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