On 22/07/11 15:38, Dicky Moore wrote:
Hey all
Has anyone had any luck in copying Sam-formatted floppy disks to .dsk or
.mgt images using a USB floppy drive?
Very little hope of doing that.
All the programs I've seen, or written myself, need to access the floppy
disk controller which you usually can not do through usb.
If your PC has a floppy controller I would suggest connecting a floppy
drive directly to that, (possibly hanging out of the side and balanced
on a pile of books) to do the copy. Then put your machine back together
again.
If you really want to use the usb floppy drive then if you're feeling
very strong hearted you might try running a linux system and using the
dd utility. Something like:
dd noerror if=/dev/fda of=~/image.txt
Tell it to ignore errors, as on a 1.44Mb disk it will expect 18**
sectors per track. So the last 8 will error. I've never tried this so
can not vouch for if it would work. Even if it does you'll have to play
about with the image to make it usable.
** I think a 1.44Mb disk has 2 sides of 80 tracks with 18 sectors of 512
bytes but I may be wrong.
Nev
