Greaseweazle

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Mon Feb 1 20:22:50 CST 2021


On 2/1/21 6:17 PM, John Foust via cctalk wrote:

> Are you saying a flux recorder should have a better way of detecting that problem?

Yes, the way they do it now if you have one shot at recovering a disk you are sure to fail.

Imagedisk, even though it spends way too much time with the heads spinning on the media at
least does real-time retries. the problem is you also need to be able to stop and
assemble a complete image by splicing together multiple partial attempts.


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