I've been checking it and it's doing great I'm sure there are some bugs but it's doing a huge bulk of tedious simulation logic for my game. I was previous in the loop quite a bit but I found myself never having to redirect it so I tried the here a giant plan /loop until its done
kinda crazy that just switching drives can make an unreadable disk readable
makes me wonder how many old floppies got written off as dead when it was really just an alignment mismatch
In the early 80s this was a fairly common thing that was known to happen with floppy disks where some manufacturers drives could not read disks written by other manufacturers even though in theory they were compatible and used the same standard. Usually floppy drive manufacturers test their drives against diswritten by whoever made the computer. So if you had an Atari, then anything written with an Atari drive could be read by any other drive you could connect to your Atari computer but if you had off-band drive, even if it was otherwise a good drive, there was no guarantee that a different drive could read that. This problem really came to head when manufacturers started going into different density drives. The early double density drives often didn't work with anyone else's drive, so when higher density became common, you really saw a lot of problems because people were trying to share this written by different drives. (and then there was Atari's oddball enhanced density drives that nothing could deal with for a few years.) you saw the same thing with Apple, Commodore, and probably with the PCs too, but I didn't know anyone who had those.
Tape drives were even worse for a long time. In many cases in the 80s and even into the 90s, sometimes a different drive from the same manufacturer couldn't read your tape.
at that point the hard part is just trusting it didnt quietly go off track somewhere imo