Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 17:31:02 +0000
From: barnacle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] FD Image

On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 10:38 pm, you wrote:
> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 06:20:57 -0800
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [LIB] FD Image
>
> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:17:23 EST
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [LIB] FD Image
>
> In a message dated 1/22/03 5:25:16 AM Mountain Standard Time,
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > Lee,
> >
> >  Would rawrite2 and raread1.1 work with non PC based floppies?  I have
> >  vintage industrial equipment that came with floppy drives in case the
> >  machines hanged and needed to be hard reset-ed.  I know they are of some
> >  propietary format (e.g. Mitsubishi and Fanuc controllers).  When those
> > boot floppies of mine go bad and I don't have any backup ... I'm gonna be
> > in big trouble ...
> >
> >  Oliver
>
> My guess would be yes, but it is purely a guess.  There would be no harm in
> trying it, except for one more read of, and associated wear to, the
> floppies. Maybe Neil or other non-DOS gurus have experience here?
>
> Lee

AFAIK, rawrite and friends exist for various machines - pc, amiga etc - but it 
doesn't look as if there's a lot of support for non-standard disks. If they 
use a standard sector/track layout, there's a chance... (using a suitable 
sized disk drive on a pc)

rawwrite is windows only.

Neil



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