On 09/08/2017 11:51 AM, John Foust via cctalk wrote: > > When attemping to read an old Amiga floppy, the magnetic media > separated from the metal hub. Were these originally glued? > > Assuming I can find a way to re-affix the media to the hub, how many > guesses as to the proper alignment might I need to make? After all, > the metal hub has an index slot and the media was formatted in > relation to that. > > Is the answer different for a PC floppy?
Yes, they were glued. Sometimes you can look carefully at the hub and the cookie and match up remaining glue deposits. In the case of a simple PC-type read, the position of the index doesn't really matter for reading--as long as the sector headers are correct, you're fine. This is particularly true if you use a whole-track reader than can read tracks without regard to index. I don't know about Amiga, however. --Chuck
