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Re: Floppy issues



Hi,

I tested a few other disks and they had the same issue.
I'll try to swap the drive, but I currently don't have another one I could test.

That doesn't preclude fixing the block size issue, though: Without this, it's not even possible to
access the floppy drive at all.

No, it does not. But without proper verification, the fix might be incomplete.

I gave the drive a good dusting, reseated all cables and tested it again.
The errors are gone, I was able to dump & mount 3 different floppy disks.
One of them had a corrupted filesystem, but no CRC errors. I assume the disk got damaged at some point, or it's some sort of DOS quirk or copy protection.

Looks like the block size fix will suffice!
I'll see if I can test the patch and find out where the 8KiB requirement comes from.


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