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Update document with the new flippy mod doc; explain how Mac disks are broken.
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@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ people who've had it work).
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| [Brother 120kB](doc/disk-brother.md) | 🦄 | | |
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| [Brother 240kB](doc/disk-brother.md) | 🦄 | 🦄 | |
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| [Brother FB-100](doc/disk-fb100.md) | 🦖 | | Tandy Model 100, Husky Hunter, knitting machines |
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| [Macintosh 800kB](doc/disk-macintosh.md) | 🦄 | | and probably the 400kB too |
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| [Macintosh 800kB](doc/disk-macintosh.md) | 🦖 | | and probably the 400kB too |
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| [TRS-80](doc/disk-trs80.md) | 🦖 | | a minor variation of the IBM scheme |
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{: .datatable }
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@@ -28,8 +28,16 @@ for example the Commodore 64 1541 drive, changed bitrate this way.
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But Macintosh disks used a constant bitrate and changed the speed that the
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disk spun instead to achieve the same effect...
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_Anyway_: FluxEngine will read them fine on a conventional drive. Because
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it's clever.
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_Anyway_: FluxEngine will read them fine on conventional drives.
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Because it's clever.
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**Big note.** Apparently --- and I'm still getting to the bottom of this ---
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some drives work and some don't. My drives produce about 90% good reads of
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known good disks. One rumour I've heard is that drives sometimes include
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filters which damage the signals at very particular intervals which Mac disks
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use, but frankly this seems unlikely; it could be a software issue at my end
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and I'm investigating. If you have any insight, please [get in
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touch](https://github.com/davidgiven/fluxengine/issues/new).
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Reading discs
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-------------
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@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ haven't had the chance to try it end-for-end. I really need a hard-sectored
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**Q.** Does it work with flippy disks?
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Uhhh... probably not.
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Uhhh... maybe?
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So the problem with flippy disks (5.25" single-sided disks which could be
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inserted upside down to read the second side) is the index hole. Trouble is,
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@@ -79,16 +79,21 @@ the other. But a flippy disk has both sets of tracks in the same place,
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because they're both accessed using the side 0 head...
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The only real way round this is to modify a 5.25" drive. That's _seriously_
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not in FluxEngine's remit. Sorry.
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not in FluxEngine's remit, but I've had some [excellent documentation
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contributed](Index_sensor_mod_FDD_1.1.pdf) on how to do this. I've never done
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it myself; if you try this and it works/doesn't work, as always, [get in
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touch](https://github.com/davidgiven/fluxengine/issues/new).
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**Q.** Is this like KryoFlux / Catweasel / DiskFerret? Do you support KryoFlux
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**Q.** Is this like Supercard Pro / KryoFlux / Catweasel / DiskFerret? Do you
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*support KryoFlux
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stream files?
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**A.** It's very like all of these; the idea's old, and lots of people have
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tried it (you can get away with any sufficiently fast microcontroller and
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enough RAM). FluxEngine can read from KryoFlux stream files natively, and
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there's a tool which will let you convert at least one kind of Catweasel file
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to FluxEngine's native flux file format.
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there's a tool which will let you convert at least one kind of Catweasel
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files and Supercard Pro files to and from FluxEngine's native flux file
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format.
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**Q.** Can I use this to make exact copies of disks?
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