gwiley
Experienced Member
Way back, on March 22, 2023...
The RK05 emulator currently will emulate a minimum of 8 sectors. A modification to support as few as 4 sectors is possible, but not sure if it's worthwhile.
Is it possible that there are any disks with less than 8 sectors? Maybe 4 or 6 sectors? Based on Al's comment above, it seems like 8 is probably the minimum.here are the timing specs for the diablo sync fields in a sector
header and data and bit order in the sector data are dependent on the format implemented by the controller
the information manual on the model 30 mentions 8-24 sectors are supported
quickly looking, i've seen 8,12,16 and 24 sectors used by various systems. 12 is used on pdp-11s, 16 on pdp-8s
The RK05 emulator currently will emulate a minimum of 8 sectors. A modification to support as few as 4 sectors is possible, but not sure if it's worthwhile.