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@ray77 ray77 released this 21 Jul 05:39

Tells a recovered retry apart from a track the drive gave up on, and sums
the run up when it ends.

MaClone

Why this release exists

A write that finished with All tracks verified but needed one retry on three
cylinders showed three red numbers and nothing to say they had been made good.
It looked like a failing disk. It wasn't.

gw distinguishes the two cases — Writing Track (Verify Failure: Retry #1)
followed by the next track means it recovered; Failed to verify Track 68.1
means it stopped trying. Now the display does too:

  • green 0 — clean
  • amber — retry needed, and it worked
  • red — gw gave up, or sectors are missing for good

A verdict when the run ends

Instead of a bare DONE:

DONE — 160 TRACKS VERIFIED
DONE — 160 TRACKS, 3 REWRITTEN OK      ← green, the retries are accounted for
2 TRACKS FAILED — 158 OK               ← red
DONE — 160 TRACKS, 4 BAD SECTORS       ← reading

The numbers stay in the grid, so you still see where the disk was awkward.
The verdict says what it amounts to.

Everything else

Unchanged from 1.2.0 — ADF / ADZ / SCP / SCPZ / IPF / IPFZ, reading, writing,
verifying, IPF creation through the bundled disk-analyse, the app icon and
the styled disk image window.

Requirements

  • A Greaseweazle (tested: V4.1, firmware 1.6)
  • macOS 11 or newer
  • A drive on the Greaseweazle's second port — it answers as unit 1 and
    shows as DRIVE 0, matching the Amiga's DF0:
  • IPF additionally needs the SPS/CAPS library in ~/Library/Frameworks/; it is
    not bundled, and MaClone says so when it is missing

Unsigned build

Right-click MaClone.app → Open → Open on first launch.

Still unproven

Whether a written disk boots on a real Amiga. That test needs genuine DD media
and is outstanding.

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