31 Dec
2010
31 Dec
'10
3:44 p.m.
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Philip Pemberton wrote:
On 31/12/10 20:48, Tony Duell wrote:
Some more questions that I don't see the answers to on your page:
1) How does the Discferret present itself to the operating system? A
mass-storage device?
2) How does the user control the various aspects of the Discferret, like
what format to use, side to use, which drive to use, etc?
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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Would it be possible to read a 'flippy'
in a dobule-head drive (I asusme
the Diskferret has a sid-select output) and then revese the bitstream
form side 1 in software brfore trying to analyse it?
Sure, as long as the drive head was aligned correctly to allow that to work.
AIUI some disc formats have the lower head offset by about half a track
relative to the upper head.
And yes, the DiscFerret does have a side-select output.