30 Aug
2004
30 Aug
'04
7:49 a.m.
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Dan Lanciani wrote:
I've come up with a way to read Heath
hard-sectored disks with a 1797-style
controller (with some modifications). I've now archived all of my old disks
with only one unrecoverable error in an unused sector (not bad for media that
is approaching 30 years in age). I do seem to have run through *drives* at
an alarming rate, though I hope that the cleaning disks I have on order will
restore some of them. Is anyone interested in:
-Technical details (the method should work for many non-standard FM formats)?
Hi Dan.
By all means, please post some technical details.
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