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track -1, head 0, sector 19 contains the drive serial number as ASCII text. interesting.
27 August at 16:36 | Open on mastodon.social
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Tube❄️Time replied to Tube❄️Time

and we've got copyright text at track -1, head 0, sector 0.
27 August at 16:37 | Open on mastodon.social
Tube❄️Time replied to Tube❄️Time

track -2 contains the same 32 sectors on all heads. it seems to be 8051 code (02 is the LJMP instruction). i'm guessing this is the main drive operating code.
27 August at 16:45 | Open on mastodon.social
The Penguin of Evil replied to Tube❄️Time

@tubetime Lot of drives had the firmware on hidden tracks. I am entertained that it's an 8051 though. The newer drives got much better CPU

27 August at 17:37 | Open on mastodon.social
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