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How do FM encoded floppies mark their sectors in the stream of flux pulses? In MFM, I understand that there are special sync patterns that the normal encoding process will never generate. So all a processor has to do is monitor the stream of incoming flux bits for those patterns, which will...

Does anyone have any documentation on the floppy disk sector CRC? In PC floppy disks, data is stored in sectors, on tracks. Each sector has a header and a body. The header contains about 8 bytes labeling the side, track and sector followed by two CRC bytes. The body contains 512 bytes of data...