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Deteriorating floppies recovery methods?
« on: May 12, 2011, 09:37:51 PM »
Those of you that has recovered deteriorating floppies. What kind of encoding violations do they produce and what mitigation have you used to get a working image file?

One can connect directly to the read head to sample the analog waveform for that extra in-depth capability.
 

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Re: Deteriorating floppies recovery methods?
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2011, 05:44:26 PM »
Found this:
http://info-coach.fr/atari/hardware/FD-Hard.php

The waveforms of wrecked analog pulses could be used as basis for an head -> A/D -> decoder. This should be able to handle bit-smear and AGC mismatches.
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