08-21-2015, 02:11 PM
(08-19-2015, 09:46 PM)admin Wrote: Can you make me an image of the disk that fails the media test? The media test just writes a solid 8us pulse and reads it back. This is as basic of a write test as you can get.
Have you written any disk format successfully using your SuperCard Pro board? It could be that the interface is not allowing the board to actually write to the disk. Imaging the disk you ran the media integrity test on will tell me a lot.
I sent an email asking about buying the adapter board a couple of days ago, but I have not yet received a response.
I've sent you a pair of images, one of a disk that fails the media test, the other an attempt to duplicate a disk.
We've used the SuperCard Pro to read/write 5.25" and 3.5" media successfully. Aside from the double-density 8" disks I've been primarily focused on, I also attempted to duplicate a single-sided, single density (DEC RX01) floppy with similar results. I can't find the images I made of it, if you want them I can capture some more images next week. I don't have anything here that's got anything more odd than a standard IBM 8" format, really...