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inital results on error correction

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 bad bytes.  In some cases, it appeared...

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test results of my output file

What I wanted to know was if the output file that I collected via my setup was actually correct. I was confident that since I was getting 4489’s consistently, that I have to be at least part way...

timing movie

I have uploaded a movie showing 30 seconds of input signal vs detected result. I checked this frame by frame and I didn’t find a single error. I still can’t figure out why I have output errors. Maybe you can...

I’ve played around a considerable bit from yesterday. There’s something very strange about the speed the PC can react in certain circumstances, and I can’t quite nail it down. Now I haven’t...

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Hi, I made some changes at my provider. I now have access to mysql which really opens up the world of various add on packages. I didn’t initially need or look for this support, but I have it now. I also have a lot...

Timing problems still?

I think I’m still having timing related issues. I have RTCC overflowing every 1.8us which I *know* is less than the 2us bit cell(or less than half the bit cell, if you take it to be 4us), but this seems to be what...

example files

I wanted to put up some example files. Note that a preceding “D” for dump and two delimiting 0xFF’s might exist in these files. Also an ending 0xFF 0xFF might exist. So two bad files below have exactly...

java software progress

This morning I added MFM decoding, header and data checksumming and checking to the java client.  I was somewhat worried about doing the MFM decoding, but it was all worry for nothing. Once you wrap your head around how...

java and portability

While I have some experience with Java, I’ve never tried to run my stuff cross-platform. Never a real need. While most of the Java stuff has yet to be written, I took some basic serial code and GUI stuff, and...