[buserror]

You clearly have never looked at a floppy before making "that won't work" comments, but floppies have a sync hole that is aligned.

And having made multiple copies like that, I know very well it worked pretty well as a method -- it's very likely why that method never became the 'uncopiable' it was claimed to be when it came out.

[StillBored]

The apple ][ didn't have the hardware to read the sync hole (much less a sensor to detect where the head was, hence the clatter on reset as the head bangs into the endstop). That was part of the magic, each sector had a sync field and then a few bytes and a track/sector number.

That is of course why its not just a simple case of locating where the burned hole was relative to the sync hole because the "physical" location of a sector offset on the disk would normally vary from disk to disk (or for that matter from track to track) or format to reformat.

[hota_mazi]

I have seen many floppies, but you don't seem to know how the Apple ][ encodes bytes on the floppy because of the Disk 2 limitations. See my remark about the $D5 $AA $96 marker, and if you want to learn more, look up "6 and 2 encoding".