| Subject: RE: 810 Happy Drive Install and Docs |
Author: ijor (76-129-235-201.fibertel.com.ar)
Date: 01-29-2006 02:22
> I stopped posting to this thread because
> I was feeling pretty beat down
You were feeling beat down because you have a childish attitude. You think that a technical debate is more about who “wins” than about the actual debate. And you cannot accept than you were wrong or that there was something that you didn’t know.
And I’m sorry if I was a bit harsh on the previous posts. But it seems it was the only way to make you reconsider and stop shouting. So if you talk/discuss/argue further about this issue, then have a friendly adult attitude and language.
If you still think that slowing down the drive is the magic solution, then let me ask you something. How do you think that those tracks were created in the original disks? Do you really think that the professional duplicators slowed down the drive?
No, they didn’t. And you don’t need to know how actually the duplicators worked to answer this. Inspect those tracks with a low level device, such as the Catweasel or the Discovery Cartridge (with the right software you could even use a Happy for this purpose). You will see then that those tracks were recorded at nominal “speed”, or more precisely, at nominal density.
Lastly, if you want to see what overlapping sectors are, then just give a closer examination to those sectors. Load sectors such as the ones in Electronic Arts in an hex editor, invert/negate them so that for example, every $00 becomes $FF and vice-versa (do you know why you have to do that?). Then, if you are familiar with how sector headers look like, you will see the answer by yourself.
And again, please reply nicely. At least if you expect me to follow up. I’m not interested in a “fight”.
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