28 Aug
2004
28 Aug
'04
6:25 p.m.
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)?
-Having me read any H8 disks?
-Any distribution images that I might have?
Dan Lanciani
ddl(a)danlan.*com