On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Philip Lord wrote:
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?
Is it possible that Track 0 is at a different density? If that's the
case, then DISKREAD may be solely intended to read non-system tracks.
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