TG43 signal and the Nec 765
Dave Dunfield
dave04a at dunfield.com
Thu Jul 28 07:40:38 CDT 2005
>TG43 is mostly a relic signal of older 8" drives. Not all
>of them used it. Also it's supposed to be meaningless on read.
>
>I may add that more than a few designers also used demuxed TG43
>to switch write precompensation in DD modes on 8" drives for
>better data reliability.
Can you elaborate.?
>Is this for a Cpro Disk-1(A) or something from the ground up?
No, it for my ImageDisk utility, which is a replacement for
TeleDisk with a documented image file format - I want to provide
support for 8" drives that need TG43.
Regards,
Dave
PS: For those on my list - I'm making some last minute changes
so I won't be sending the update until this evening.
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