Use good disks!
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I really don't like the idea of extended tracks on drives because I have seen several of the worm gear type stepper motors get stuck when the head jams into the end. You have to manually turn the worm gear to unstick the head. However, there will be a test to determine the max number of tracks if you tell it to. You don't need to write a special pattern to the disk when there is a track 0 sensor. You just step to track 0 and then step the head forwards 'x' number of times, and then step backwards to track 0 counting the number of tracks and see if it matches.

I am renaming "Drive Compatibility Test" to "Drive/Disk Test" and putting the disk formatter/tester in that function as well.
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Use good disks! - by admin - 01-04-2014, 10:54 PM
RE: Use good disks! - by LordCrass - 01-05-2014, 08:42 AM
RE: Use good disks! - by admin - 01-05-2014, 11:08 AM
RE: Use good disks! - by admin - 01-05-2014, 11:28 AM



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