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Vortex Disc Drives

734 bytes added, 18:45, 3 January 2010
It has [[VDOS]] on ROM.
 
== Vortex Disk Format ==
 
Sector numbers are 01h..09h (same as AMSDOS IBM Format, but with a 9th sector)
Disks are Double-Sided, Double Density, 80 Tracks, 9 Sectors
Total capacity is 720K (704K available):
* First 9K contain two System Tracks (eg. CP/M Bootstrap)
* Next 4K contain directory (see Note)
* Next 720K are data (allocated in 4K blocks) (aka 4K clusters)
* Last 3K are unused (due to 4K allocation size)
Note: According to the manual, the directory can hold 128 entries under VDOS2.0 (whole 4K used), but only 64 entries under VDOS1.0 (only half of the 4K area used).
 
The Vortex -Z drives do not seem to include any VDOS ROM (so they do support only normal 40-Track AMSDOS Formats, but NOT the 80-Track Vortex format).
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