Al Kossow
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The BASF 6104 manual that was just posted has an interesting page
AFAIK, this is the only other drive besides the Shugart SA850 to have a switchable filter on pin 2 that
you're supposed to enable at cyl 60 when reading because IBM doesn't do write precompensation.
I have seen problems using Imagedisk on MFM IBM disks, I wonder if this is why, and if some IBM
systems used write pre-compensation and some didn't.
AFAIK, this is the only other drive besides the Shugart SA850 to have a switchable filter on pin 2 that
you're supposed to enable at cyl 60 when reading because IBM doesn't do write precompensation.
I have seen problems using Imagedisk on MFM IBM disks, I wonder if this is why, and if some IBM
systems used write pre-compensation and some didn't.