I can handle the soldering and testing, but I don't have anything to do the CPLD or MCU programming (PIC guy :p ). Interesting project though -- keep...
AFAIK, not for floppy disks, at least nothing standardized. I think I've seen a few non-controller-based methods for marking bad blocks on MFM disks;...
As for my monitor, the color has improved a lot since I've replaced all of the caps (except for one)... forgot to order it and I got too impatient. ...