[cctalk] Re: Greaseweazle part 2

On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 8:31 AM r.stricklin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote: this project. I have known you on many occasions to go to far greater lengths to achieve far deeper understanding of far more complicated devices. Far less intelligent people than you have managed somehow to marshal the necessary resources to make useful headway with the damn thing. The majority of the questions you’re demanding answers to seem to me like the kind of questions that could be easily answered with about four minutes’ worth of simple experimentation. It's a combination of things : I regard the Greaseweazle (or any other similar device) as a tool to help me to do something which I enjoy -- running classic computers. While I am happy to spend time improving my skills at using tools, I do not expect to have to guess at what the designer was doing. I also want to understand what my tools should be doing. Not what they seem to have done in the past. Getting some of my classics running is a big enough ob without having to worry whether or not some missing option in writing the boot disk image to a real disk has caused that disk to be mangled. The more I know to be correct, the better. I can sit down with the Greaseweazle board, the PC, a floppy drive and a logic analyser and probably find some combination of options that produces what look to be sensible signals on the Write Data line. But whether they are sensible signals is a much bigger problem. Yes, I like solving puzzles. But this shouldn't be a puzzle. If I want to solve a puzzle about reading and writing arbitrary disk formats the I'll design my own device to do it. -tony