David Given

I have good news and bad news: the good news is that I've just fixed a bug which was causing all Brother decodes to be wrong. The bad news is...

What level of bad sectors did you get? The flux file you sent me is in pretty poor shape, and I think there's something wrong with the alignment. I see...

The extra sectors visible in the first picture indicate that it's seeing sectors that don't belong on that track. Once the image has been read any good sectors on the...

Well... I've no idea why the NEC drive would have done that. But the new read does look better. There are still some extra sectors near the middle, however. Note...

Do you know about the FluxEngine filesystem commands? They let you read and write individual files without needing to image the entire disk (for supported filesystems, of course).

There's nothing on the image you sent me other than a little garbage --- it's mostly all zeroes. There's certainly nothing which looks like a filesystem. The settings in the...

Actually, taking another look at the screenshot: the Brother stores its data on side _zero_ (the bottom). I think that HXC is failing to parse the Brother GCR data on...

Oh, it's a CNC machine! I thought you were talking about the Brother word processors... So, assuming that the image is correct, it looks like this is a simple variation...

Try adding: -s drive:1

Thanks! I think I have a working configuration, which I've attached. Unzip this into the fluxengine directory, and then you can use it with: ``` fluxengine read brother160.textpb -s drive:1...