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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
Subject: Re: higher density diskettes
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>Can the 765 read 'raw' tracks, as well as pick sectors out of them?

Yes.  It can do essentially everything that a WD-style floppy controller
can do except write raw tracks.  You have to use the format command to
write tracks.  Thus a track must consist of sectors.  This still allows
more formats than anyone would want to support - the sectors can have
weird ids and different sizes.

Bruce