On 5/16/23 21:29, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: >> From what I've heard, there has been substantial progress on the flux > transition devices, with decoding the track to sectors, and even support > of some file systems! >
For years I have been telling the community that flux transition is easy-peasy on modern MCUs. You have fast timers, "capture mode" and even DMA for the capture process. After that, it's mostly a matter of knowing the modulation method and ID address and data marker encoding. I routinely use (my own code) the method for getting at the guts of RX01/RX02 disks as well the oddball ones, such as Wang 2200 hard sector. My Pertec-interface tape controller is much the same--wiggle the right lines and stash the data on the internal SD card. It's not hard! --Chuck
