Monthly Archives: April 2008

Interesting article and comments

Posted on April 30, 2008 by admin

Someone on sci.electronics.design mentioned the following article: http://www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in/industry/appnotes/Natsemi/AN-505.pdf This is a Floppy Disk Data Separator Design Guide for DP8473 which is a floppy disk controller like the infamous NEC 765 controller.  It’s a little heavy on the math end, but … Continue reading →

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first day back

Posted on April 28, 2008 by admin

You know, I always hate the “first day back” working on a project.  Things always seem to get screwed up between the time I last worked on a project, and that day.  Even if nothing has changed. Or so I … Continue reading →

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inital results on error correction

Posted on April 2, 2008 by admin

While I have yet to actually implement the full-scale error correction as I want to, I did some manual tests today. I basically took a track that I was erroring out on, and swapped in 1-bit away values for the … Continue reading →

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