Re: nibtools, GCR, G64

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 21:12:56 +0200
Message-Id: <E5F3FBFB-348B-4BE4-98E7-9EBBD0D7FD8D@wfmh.org.pl>
On 2013-05-30, at 20:55, Pete Rittwage wrote:

>> So if I find a SYNC not being byte-aligned, I should expect that the
>> actual data (header or sector itself) won't be aligned either, right? If
>> that's the case then.. arrghh... %^#$
> 
> Definitely- all the data will be aligned to the sync, so you have to shift
> everything in between the syncs... Also, you can't assume there is no
> "illegal" GCR which will throw off the framing.

And how that aligning to SYNC works when SYNC is anything between 10 and 40 bits? If I align byte's MSB to the first bit of the SYNC, I still don't know how many bits are there behind those ten I found? What if there is - say - only 13 consecutive '1' bits rather than 40?

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