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From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr)
Subject: Re: Proposal for Diskette Information Interchange
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Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 00:52:50 GMT
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Below is a minor correction for proposal is below.
An incorrect reference was made to the mapped sector numbers.
The correction should read as below "sector 6-15".
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reserved
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TRACK ZERO sector 6-15
A "bad-sector" map area for 20 meg diskettes.
These disk drives are scsi and have their own format to
by pass bad sector problems. In either case, reserving track
zero make it compatible with IBM/MS-DOS.
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Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@netcom.com
Zebra Research
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