On 08/08/2016 07:31 PM, Eric Smith wrote: > I'm seeing more errors on low numbered tracks, so I really think I > just need a better data separator algorithm.
That's surprising--low-numbered tracks should be the easiest to read. At the expense of sounding like a complete idiot, have you checked the alignment of the drive? It's not uncommon to get a batch of disks written with alignment slightly off (blame whomever you want). I keep an "unaligned" drive around to tweak when I run into those cases. --Chuck
