INCITS/ISO 8630-2 : 1987
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01-01-2002
0 Introduction
1 Scope and field of application
2 Conformance
3 References
4 General requirements
4.1 Mode of recording
4.2 Track location tolerance of the recorded flexible disk
cartridge
4.3 Recording offset angle
4.4 Density of recording
4.5 Flux transition spacing
4.6 Average Signal Amplitude
4.7 Byte
4.8 Sector
4.9 Cylinder
4.10 Cylinder Number
4.11 Data capacity of a track
4.12 Hexadecimal notation
4.13 Error Detection Characters (EDC)
5 Track layout after the first formatting for track 00, side 0
5.1 Index Gap
5.2 Sector Identifier
5.3 Identifier Gap
5.4 Data Block
5.5 Data Block Gap
5.6 Track Gap
6 Track layout after the first formatting for all tracks
excluding track 00, side 0
6.1 Index Gap
6.2 Sector Identifier
6.3 Identifier Gap
6.4 Data Block
6.5 Data Block Gap
6.6 Track Gap
7 Track layout of a recorded flexible disk for data interchange
7.1 Representation of characters
7.2 Good and bad cylinders
7.3 Requirements for cylinders
7.4 Layout of the tracks of a good cylinder
7.5 Layout of the tracks of a bad cylinder
Annexes
A EDC implementation
B Procedure and equipment for measuring flux transition spacing
C Data separators for decoding MFM recording
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