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inital results on error correction

While I have yet to actually implement the full-scale error correction as I want to, I did some manual tests today. I basically took a track that I was erroring out on, and swapped in 1-bit away values for the bad bytes.  In some cases, it appeared...

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new book

I picked up a copy of Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering this past weekend. I have about 5 or 6 chapters read. All very good. It was published April 2005 or thereabouts, and so its much more updated than the book...

mail issues from the blog

I dunno how or why, but there were problems with the outbound mailing from my blog. In any even, I’ve added a new plugin, and everything is working much better. If there are any complaints, problems, etc please...

cleaned up the project

So after banging my head for awhile, things still aren’t working as they had prior to my stepping away from it. What I did last night was to partially dissassemble everything, and rewire a decent portion of it. ...

Found one issue

Well, within an hour or so of getting my new LogicPort logic analyzer hooked up, I’m at least noticing some symptoms that I haven’t seen before. The drive is putting out(or the logic analyzer and my sx is...

Halloween 2007 AFP updates

DTR-based PC to SX flow control is now enabled and working, thanks to jd2xx. It has been tested, and SX responds appropriately to a STOP request. Strangely, with the new jd2xx code, it doesn’t appear that flow...

updates

I originally thought that the SX might be sending the data too fast for the PC to handle. As my last post mentioned, one full cycle is 12us, but who knows if this is during a disk-write, going into the cache, etc. I...

still giving me trouble

I spent some time on the project last night.  Still no-go. The SX and the software is behaving as expected by responding to commands, transferring the buffer, so and so forth.  I’m getting garbage data from the...

more followup winIO vs inpoup32

I did a little informal write test. A small tight loop that simply raises pin 1 and then lowers it again. Both in as little code as possible, as clean as possible. WINIO: Total time to raise and lower again, 2.5us...