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Archive - January 21, 2006

proof of concept works

Today is the first day in months that I’ve made what I consider good progress. I am now able to read any track(so far) off of any disk with 100% success including checking and relying on the checksums. I read...

first two bytes of checksum bad

Despite the data being received 100% correct, the data checksum fails in certain cases. It’s always the first two bytes of the 4-byte, 32-bit checksum that are wrong.  The last two are always right.  What does...

updated code and comments

  Here’s a current version of the code.  I cleaned up my code tonight, added a bunch of comments, and tried to explain and document what I’m doing and the logic behind it. The current code is so much better...