FluxEngine/testing

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Document FluxEngine testing.

2019-07-11
the FluxEngine creator notified me that he had fixed some bugs, and that ND format 17b floppies was reading fine for him now, so I needed to test that as well. I updated the firmware and software to the latest from the Github repository (master branch), set up a 5.25 inch floppy drive and started testing. Torfinn (talk) 14:23, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
first try
tingo@kg-bsbox:~/personal/projects/psoc/fluxengine/tmp$ ../fluxengine read ibm -s :t=0-76 --retries=0 -o test-nd-525-210523g02-xx-01d.image
[..]
H.SS Tracks --->
0. 0 .....................X...........................................?...........
0. 1 .................................................................X...........
0. 2 ...........................?.....................................X...........
0. 3 .................................................................X...........
0. 4 .................................................................X...........
0. 5 ......?..........................................................X...........
0. 6 .................................................................X...........
0. 7 .................................................................X...........
1. 0 .........?............X.............................?........................
1. 1 .........X..........................................X........................
1. 2 .........X..........................................X........................
1. 3 .........X..............................X...........X........................
1. 4 .........X..........................................X........................
1. 5 .........X..........................................X........................
1. 6 .........X..........................................X........................
1. 7 .........X..........................................X........................
Good sectors: 1208/1232 (98%)
Missing sectors: 24/1232 (1%)
Bad sectors: 0/1232 (0%)
77 tracks, 2 heads, 8 sectors, 1024 bytes per sector, 1232 kB total

try with --revolutions=2 to see if it improves the reading

tingo@kg-bsbox:~/personal/projects/psoc/fluxengine/tmp$ ../fluxengine read ibm -s :t=0-76 --retries=0 --revolutions=2 -o test-nd-525-210523g02-xx-01d_r2.image
[..]
H.SS Tracks --->
0. 0 .............................................................................
0. 1 .............................................................................
0. 2 .............................................................................
0. 3 .............................................................................
0. 4 .............................................................................
0. 5 .............................................................................
0. 6 .............................................................................
0. 7 .............................................................................
1. 0 .............................................................................
1. 1 .............................................................................
1. 2 .............................................................................
1. 3 .............................................................................
1. 4 .............................................................................
1. 5 .............................................................................
1. 6 .............................................................................
1. 7 .............................................................................
Good sectors: 1232/1232 (100%)
Missing sectors: 0/1232 (0%)
Bad sectors: 0/1232 (0%)
77 tracks, 2 heads, 8 sectors, 1024 bytes per sector, 1232 kB total

a clean image. Nice!

tingo@kg-bsbox:~/personal/projects/psoc/fluxengine/tmp$ ~/bin/ndfs -t test-nd-525-250305m05-xx-01d_r2.image
Directory name            : 250305M05-XX-01D
Object file index pointer : 611 SI: 0x1 (indexed)
User file index pointer   : 613 SI: 0x1 (indexed)
Bit file pointer          : 615 SI: 0x0 (contiguous)
No. of unreserved pages   : 1
Files:
  0   0: A       20 pages     39497 bytes 1990-01-24 08:12:12 (SYSTEM)MACM-1718L:BPUN
  0   1: A      589 pages   1109625 bytes 1990-01-24 08:12:20 (SYSTEM)SINTRAN-M-1:DATA
Directory size: 611 pages
Bit file size : 1 page 

and ndfs can list it (I also tested extracting the files and that works too). I went on read more images, some were ok, and some were not. Torfinn (talk) 14:23, 12 July 2019 (UTC)