420k MaxiForm disks

[redswoop]

When I was a kid, I thought I'd be clever and use this tool to format my disks:

https://www.herne.com/disks.htm

Unforch, nothing knows how to read these natively. Is there a way to teach Fluxengine about these?

[davidgiven]

Hello!

Yes, these would be trivial to support. Easiest thing to do is to try reading them with the ibm auto format and see what comes out, although you'll have to override the track range for the two extra tracks. Be aware that track 42 is quite a lot beyond the limit of what's normally readable and you may need to hunt around for a drive which supports it.

Eventually it'd be nice to add the MaxiForm formats to the ibm format. If you look at src/formats/ibm.textpb (https://github.com/davidgiven/fluxengine/blob/master/src/formats/ibm.textpb) and look at the options section at the bottom, you should be able to see how the formats are defined. From the command line you can just specify the path to a textpb file in place of a format and it'll use the configuration in that file instead of a built-in one.