The old disk utils I see on m100 archives that claim any sector level access, require the original stock dos to be installed, so they use routines from floppy.co / flopy2.co like libraries rather than doing it directly themselves.
I haven't looked at lapdos yet to see what it can do. I'd be willing to lend out my tpdd-2 (working, clean heads, new belt) if I will get a real clone of the original utility disk out of it, and the means for anyone to regenerate one from internet files from now on. Someone offered to send me copies of their disk off list, and I accepted, but it's still worth it if someone will reverse engineer and document some more knowledge of these things for future reference. Then I can use that myself to make archivable copies of my own disks I'm getting from someone else, instead of only being able to make more physical copies. Even if it continues to require a real tpdd/2 to create the disk and can't do it in a modern drive on a pc controller, that's fine. You only need the this for use on an original drive anyway. -- bkw On May 24, 2016 7:10 PM, "Mark J. Blair" <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to be able to archive and reproduce the utility diskettes > just on general principle, and I would enjoy contributing towards that in > the case of the original TPDD, since I have a couple of them and a utility > disk. I don't have a TPDD 2, so I can't help in that area at this time. > > Please forgive me for not having examined the new command line tool yet; > it's on my radar, but I haven't gotten there yet. Does it (or any other > tool I might be able to run on a Mac, or a Windows or Linux machine in a > VM), allow block-mode access to TPDD disks? > > > -- > Mark J. Blair, NF6X <[email protected]> > http://www.nf6x.net/ > >
