Dicky Moore wrote: > Has anyone had any luck in copying Sam-formatted floppy disks to .dsk or > .mgt images using a USB floppy drive? > > Samdisk doesn’t support USB floppy drives and I’m not sure of any other > software that can do this.
I'm afraid there's no way to do it with a standard USB floppy drive. It's a hardware limitation without any software work-arounds, so no other program can do it either. You'll either need a desktop PC with an on-board floppy controller, for SAMdisk use, or some special hardware that doesn't need a floppy controller chip (such as Kyroflux), which isn't cheap for one-off use. > I’m trying to recover all the E-tracker music I created back in the day. If you don't have access to a PC that can do it, and you can get the disks to me, I can dump them for you. Alternatively, if you still have your real SAM then we can work around the sector 10 issue, using a spare floppy disk to hold a copy of the inaccessible sector 10s. Two 9-sector disks, which can be dumped on a USB drive, could be pieced back together to give the complete MGT 10-sector image. If you're still using your real SAM, you'd perhaps be better off with an Atom Lite board. You can copy your disks on to that very easily, and the Compact Flash card is easy to move back and forth between SAM and PC. SAMdisk can read extract disk images from it (or write them back), or you can use it directly in SimCoupe. If you want to try a SAM-side work-around, drop me an e-mail... Si
