Catweasel support for Intel M2FM working!

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Sun Oct 11 22:22:37 CDT 2009


On 11 Oct 2009 at 19:13, Fred Cisin wrote:

> > He says that all of the floppy file formats just end up being a
> > series of blocks one after another so that all you need to know is
> > the block size and the number of sectors per track.
> 
> All files just end up being a series of words one after another so
> that all you need to know is the word-size in bits, and the length of
> the file.

Ever tried to decode a DECStation WPS I floppy?  Two sectors are used 
to hold the low-order 8 bits of each word and then a third sector 
holds the high-order 4 bits of the words of the other two sectors, 
all packed together.  6 bit ASCII, too, with numerous escape codes.

--Chuck




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