Hi all,
I've been struggling with getting my Ohio Scientific + MPI floppy drive system working
for almost 2 years now. It's been by far my longest 'on and off' project, and
in the process I've all but rebuilt the entire drive.
I have been using a program for the OSI called DISKREAD which basically just dumps what
data it reads from the disk to the screen. Up until recently I wasn't having much luck
seeing anything meaningful, but after some more playing around I was finally able to see
some data from an OSI boot disk that indeed looked good. I was able to cross reference
what I was seeing against a disk image I downloaded off the net, and from track 1 onwards
the data looks identical.
The problem is track 0. Track 0 contains the boot code. When I dump track 0 it just looks
all screwed up, mostly lots of 00's and FF's and F1's and FD's etc
etc...basically stuff that just looks wrong. It also seems that doing subsequent passes
over track 0 dumps different data each time!!!!
I was just wondering if anyone knows what would cause track 0 to read bad and
inconsistently, where other tracks seem to read good and consistent?
Thanks for for your time.
Phil