Someone on sci.electronics.design mentioned the following article: This is a Floppy Disk Data Separator Design Guide for DP8473 which is a floppy disk controller like the infamous NEC 765 controller. It’s a...
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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...
a little code review today
While my send UART code has been pretty solid for some time, I’ve always though my receive uart code needed doublechecked and worked on. I spent some time today just going through the code, graphing out some...
amiga floppy project activity
I don’t know how interesting this is, but I thought I’d throw it up anyways. I exported the posts and comments tables from the mysql database, imported into Excel, and then created an activity graph of the...
first real world tests
Well I tried to read about 70 disks in via my project tonight. I had mixed results. First, the Teac loves HD media but doesn’t fare as well with LD media. The Samsung hates HD media, but does very well with LD...
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...
