On 8/7/16 9:52 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
Of the four Intel M2FM disk images I've tried,
which are single-sided
77 track 52 sector 128 byte, for a total of 4004 sectors, I get 3990,
3981, 4004, and 3976 sectors read apparently correctly (without CRC
error). That's more than 99.3%, which isn't good enough.
is there any correlation between creation dates of the files and the failure rate?
i'm wondering if the heads started to clog farther into the imaging session.
he didn't say how often he cleaned the heads.