Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:30:49 -0500 From: Chris Elmquist <chrise at pobox.com> Subject: Re: Looking for a ST419 I'm new here so I apologize for opening this old can of worms :-) <snip> That's the path I've been on. I envision over-sampling and then just playing and recording what was sent to the drive. I'd make no attempt to go inside that datastream and try to interpret what was read or written. If entire tracks were always written, then it seems rather straightforward to just store track images and play and record them as they are seeked to. <snip> Ya... so, again I'm new here :-) But I'll go away quitely and think about this some more-- knowing now that I can't cheat and do tracks at a time. Chris -------------Reply: Oh, I don't know; that's all it'd take to make a few of us Cromemco folks with failing MFM drives happy... mike