| Author: | Rixa (guest: search) |
| Date: | Sat, Apr 08th, 2006 @ 04:51 ( . ) |
I'm a bit puzzled by the mnib switches as described in readme.txt and the help. The options -r -g, and -0 are marked "(R)" even though the description of these switches indicates they only affect writing. I also only noticed from the source code that n2g recognizes the options -f, -r, -0, -g, -a and -h. If it was documented somewhere I missed it, and the n2g help doesn't tell. Does the -h switch in n2g do something? It does not seem to write halftrack data even with that option, and even when mnib has been run with -h. (I was curious about a drive alignment data disk) |
| Author: | Pete Rittwage (guest: search) |
| Date: | Sat, Apr 08th, 2006 @ 08:25 ( . ) |
On 04/08/2006 @ 04:51, Rixa wrote : I'm a bit puzzled by the mnib switches as described in readme.txt and the help. The options -r -g, and -0 are marked "(R)" even though the description of these switches indicates they only affect writing. : : I also only noticed from the source code that n2g recognizes the options -f, -r, -0, -g, -a and -h. If it was documented somewhere I missed it, and the n2g help doesn't tell. : : Does the -h switch in n2g do something? It does not seem to write halftrack data even with that option, and even when mnib has been run with -h. (I was curious about a drive alignment data disk) : -- You are correct about 'r', 'g', and '0'. It was a mistype. -h is only a reading option, and is only for experimentation. I haven't found a disk yet with halftracks. The 1541 head is too wide to write anything in between standard tracks, so it isn't enabled in write mode. If we come up with a disk that needs it for writing, then I will work on that part again. :) |