Simon Cooke wrote:
> I checked out... you can't do it without writing your own
> kernel-mode driver  :)

I was hoping that FLOPPY.SYS would have support for COMMAND_READ_TRACK but
it doesn't, as that may be all that's needed to read any Sam disk (well, it
sounds like it in theory). I'll have a go at adding it, but it's a real pain
doing any work with file system kernel-mode drivers as you need to reboot
after every change. I built my own version and started it manually, but the
drives are not visible :-(

Another option is just to modify the drive media table table to add support
for disks with 10 sectors per track, and rebuild the driver with a different
name and with different symbolic links so it's seen as SAMA: SAMB: etc. That
should give access to 10 sectors per track for all normal format Sam disks,
which would be a start anyway!


> Not that many people want to read/write at that low a level, it would
> seem...

Wimps ;-)

Si

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