Micropolis 1525 stuck heads

Jules Richardson jules.richardson99 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 22 06:46:53 CDT 2021


On 9/20/21 1:13 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
> 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.

cheers

Jules




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