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Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Just do what the Amiga did:  Read the entire track into a buffer in
> memory, then deal with the sectors, and write the entire track back. :)

IIRC, there is no way to detect the interleave factor that the media has 
been formatted with, unless you maybe try several and see which one 
reads fastest.