amiga floppy disk reading experience

[Chuck Guzis]

On 11 Jun 2010 at 23:08, Philip Pemberton wrote:

> I seem to recall there being a (WD?) application note or datasheet
> that basically said one of the WD controller chips' built-in data
> separators shouldn't be used because it wasn't reliable... I wish I
> could find a reference for that.. :)

WD1771 application note, under "Data Seperation"(sic) "...and (sic) 
external data seperator (sic) is recommended."  Actually, the number 
of (sics) in that AN probably sets some sort of record.

And yet, I've run across several systems (wasn't the TRS-80 Mod I one 
of them?) that blithely ignored this recommendation.

--Chuck