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Disk: Smaky 6
The Smaky 6 is a Swiss computer from 1978 produced by Epsitec. It's based around a Z80 processor and has one or two Micropolis 5.25" drives which use 16-sector hard sectored disks. The disk format is single-sided with 77 tracks and 256-byte sectors, resulting in 308kB disks. It uses MFM with a custom sector record scheme. It was later superceded by a 68000-based Smaky which used different disks.
FluxEngine supports these, although because the Micropolis drives use a 100tpi track pitch, you can't read Smaky 6 disks with a normal PC 96tpi drive. You will have to find a 100tpi drive from somewhere (they're rare).
Reading disks
You must use a 100-tpi 80-track 5.25" floppy drive.
To read a Smaky 6 floppy, do:
fluxengine read smaky6
You should end up with a smaky6.img file.
Filesystem access
There is experimental read-only support for the Smaky 6 filesystem, allowing the directory to be listed and files read from disks. It's not known whether this is completely correct, so don't trust it! See the Filesystem Access page for more information.