Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > Hi list, > > sorry for being off-topic, but I have a feeling that there are some > computer veterans on this list. I'm looking for filesystem information > about Motorola's VERSAdos. A block driver for the weird FM/MFM > combination of the 3.5" disks (638K capacity) is already written, now > I need to extract files from the disk. > > any hints? > Last time I had this sort of thing I asked here. A lo o o o ng time ago!
I asked here and got no response. But I was starting into linux then.I found linux's fdutils, made the author's life miserable until he got interested, and then we cracked the disk format for an 800K disk on a 720K floppy. I never got to cracking the driver for it. But it didn't matter. I could reconfigure my drive to be an 800k drive (which was what I wanted). Then I could take the entire thing into a filesystem my box was familiar with, and write a copy the same way. I'm sure this is enoughy, as you can pick off the files if your disk is not fragmented. Afterwards when I came back happy and telling people how I had sorted myself out, they all shot me down and said "Ah you needn't have bothered doing that - why didn't you use program X, or Y, or Z?" :-/. Most of the above things were on Simtel.net's Dos archive, which was sadly axed when they needed some disk space. I can spoon feed you with fdutils. The latest version is usually on http://www.linux.lu as is a supposedly general document about cracking weird floppy formats. In fact it is a write up of my experience with my newbie linux user mistakes and his correcting them and blowing my head off (You great steaming [EMAIL PROTECTED]) edited out. I had that running 486 box running dos, windows, and linux on a 250Meg hard disk with the kids games and fast tracker 2 on it. It nearly stopped every time you had to reinstall the sound drivers. How times change... -- With best Regards, Declan Moriarty. -- Author: Declan Moriarty INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Hosting, San Diego, California -- http://www.fatcity.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB CHIPDIR-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
