Date archives: 15 August 2010

Not much done today, but got and hour and a half in this evening.  PIC code has now been modified to scan the whole disk, pretty much as follows: Select Drive Motor On Seek to Track Zero Select Side 0 Wait 250ms Select Side 1 Wait 250ms Step head ...and...

Managed to get half an hour in here.  Making the code a bit more analytical.  It now tells me if a SYNC word was found mid-sector and also reports how many non-sector bytes were discarded before a sync work was found.  It's looking exactly as I expected: Sync Marker found**...