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The new home of Tim Mann's CatWeasel support tools for TRS-80 floppy preservation. The Releases area contains binaries for MS-DOS and x86_64 Linux.
http://www.tim-mann.org/catweasel.html
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Update man page to reflect max tracks change to 88 #18

Closed TimothyPMann closed 2 years ago

TimothyPMann commented 2 years ago

Are we going to eventually need to make an equivalent matching changes to dmk2cw?

No, dmk2cw doesn't have a maximum number of tracks.

qbarnes commented 2 years ago

I should have expanded my earlier comment. My comment had to do with the use of track > 43 in dmk2cw.c:1027 and the comments surrounding it in dmk2cw.man when using the -h option. I didn't know if the change from 43->44 was applicable here or if the 43 use here for some other reason.

TimothyPMann commented 2 years ago

I should have expanded my earlier comment. My comment had to do with the use of track > 43 in dmk2cw.c:1027 and the comments surrounding it in dmk2cw.man when using the -h option. I didn't know if the change from 43->44 was applicable here or if the 43 use here for some other reason.

That 43 is entirely unrelated to cw2dmk's maximum tracks. 77-track 8" drives have a signal on their 50-pin bus called TG43 (track greater than 43). It's used to change the write current used for the higher numbered tracks. The Catweasel lets you control that signal, and dmk2cw has code to set it.