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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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merging USB receive

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added commands

So I’ve added commands to support forward/backward stepping and upper and lower sides. R for Read D for Dump F/B for stepping either Forward or Backward U/L for selecting upper or lower side. I’ve tested...

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current results

Now that I have a portion of Marco’s old code implemented, I’ve run an output file from my SX through it. It’s one whole track from a capture of a DiskMonTools. It’s almost 14k long, which sounds...

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java and portability

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