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Article 7092 of comp.sys.amiga.tech:
Path: estinc!mcdphx!asuvax!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!giza.cis.ohio-state.edu!erd
From: erd@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R Dicks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: How's this for an enhancement to MSH?
Keywords: MSH messy-dos Manx digital VAX RX50
Message-ID: <77558@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 24 Feb 90 22:11:53 GMT
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Reply-To: Ethan R Dicks <erd@cis.ohio-state.edu>
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I have an "enhancement" to MSH, the messydisk.device in particular. I
have been trying to read DEC RX-50 5-1/4" floppies for a long time now.
The drive I am using is a standard PC clone 5-1/4" drive attached to the
small circuit board found in the A1010 3-1/2" drive. It works fine with
AmigaDOS, CrossDOS and MSH. I want to read RX-50 floppies. The chart
I have from the DEC manual looks like this...
"GAP 1" GAP 1: 47 x 0x4E
SYNCH: 8 x 0x00
IDAM: 3 x 0xA1
1 x 0xFE
TRACK: (physical track address)
SIDE: (physical side number)
SECTR: (physical sector number)
[Repeat once SIZE: 1 x 0x02 (512 bytes per sector)
per sector ] 2 CRC: 2 CRC bytes
GAP 2: 22 x 0x4E
SYNCH: 12 x 0x00
DAM: 3 x 0xA1
1 x 0xFB
DATA: 512 x 0xE5
2 CRC: 2 CRC bytes
GAP 3: 48 x 0x4E
GAP 4: 6250 minus sum of bytes up to GAP 4 x 0x4E
The same chart lists PC floppies as follows...
"GAP 1" GAP 1A: 80 x 0x4E
SYNCH: 12 x 0x00
INDEX: 3 x 0xC2
1 x 0xFC
GAP1B: 50 x 0x4E
SYNCH: 12 x 0x00
IDAM: 3 x 0xA1
1 x 0xFE
TRACK: (physical track address)
SIDE: (physical side number)
SECTR: (physical sector number)
[Repeat once SIZE: 1 x 0x02 (512 bytes per sector)
per sector ] 2 CRC: 2 CRC bytes
GAP 2: 22 x 0x4E
SYNCH: 12 x 0x00
DAM: 3 x 0xA1
1 x 0xFB
DATA: 512 x 0xE5
2 CRC: 2 CRC bytes
GAP 3: 64 x 0x4E
GAP 4: 6250 minus sum of bytes up to GAP 4 x 0x4E
As you can see, the formats are extremely familiar. I would perform the
change myself, but I have Lattice, not Manx. I would be very happy to see
a messydisk.device which supports that track format, and a diskette head
geometry of 10 sectors/track by 1 head by 80 tracks (400kb). For someone
with Manx, the change is utterly trivial, but for me, almost impossible.
Once I can read the blocks on a diskette, I intend to write two new file
systems for the Amiga: RT-11 format and ODS-1 or ODS-2 FILES-11 format,
so that I can directly read diskettes written on PDP-11s or VAXen. The
other possibility is to write tar floppies, but I still need to be able to
read the sectors.
Thanks much.
-ethan
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