Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 May 2008 17:50:37 -0400 | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: floppy question of the hour |
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On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Phillip Susi wrote: >Lennart Sorensen wrote: >> Just do what the Amiga did: Read the entire track into a buffer in >> memory, then deal with the sectors, and write the entire track back. :) > >IIRC, there is no way to detect the interleave factor that the media has >been formatted with, unless you maybe try several and see which one >reads fastest.
ilv=3 reads the fastest by a wide margin on the target machine.
Thanks Guys.
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