22 Sep
2021
22 Sep
'21
4:54 a.m.
On 22.09.21 13:46, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote:
On 9/20/21 1:13 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
David Gesswein's MFM-reader : https://www.pdp8online.com/mfm/mfm.shtml
Running it through the MFM tool got all but 200
or so sectors on the first pass, most errors were on head 3 but tapered off after cyl 500.
Seems like a normal copy of Accent, no special information so it might not be worth taking
the world apart to get it working.
What's this "MFM tool" of which you speak? Something specific to the PERQ
world? I've got various ST506/412-type drives formatted against various controllers in
various systems that might benefit from a snapshot.