Re: [Ql-Users] Rawread
Ah, thank you. Floopy is simple enough even for me :o) And cheap enough for me too (Freeware!) I tested it with a USB floppy as drive A: on my Windows 7 64-bit PC and it successfully if slowly created a disk image of a HD QL disk in about 10 minutes. It won't handle 720KB QL disks (it recognised it as such), only 1.4 MB ones on this system at least. Probably because Win7 doesn't handle 720K disks. I should also have mentioned that the SMSQmulator manual states that currently only 720K (DSDD) QL disk images can be handled by SMSQmulator, not the 1.44MB HD disk images. Dilwyn ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Rawread
I tested both 720K and 1.44M floppy images (in the simplest of tests). I can do some further testing with 1.44 (read, write, etc) and see if I can get any failure. Tim Swenson ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Rawread
Le 25/01/2013 01:55, Timothy Swenson a écrit : I tested both 720K and 1.44M floppy images (in the simplest of tests). I can do some further testing with 1.44 (read, write, etc) and see if I can get any failure. Ah yes, contrary to the documentation (I'll amend this) SMSQmulator should handle 1.44 MiB disk images Writing to the images will always fail. This is a read access only. Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Rawread
This might help? http://reboot.pro/topic/14354-buidlingmodifying-floppy-images-with-mtools-as-replacement-for-winimageimdisk/ Le 23/01/2013 15:55, Dilwyn Jones a écrit : On my website there’s an article by IIRC Timothy Swenson about the use of RAWREAD and RAWRITE to create and write disk image files. Someone asked me (presumably trying out SMSQmulator) if there is a 64-bit Windows version of RAWREAD or RAWRITE, or equivalent software (RAWREAD is a DOS program which doesn’t run in 64-bit environments). I assume it might be possible to run 32-bit programs in something like virtual box too. Another solution gleaned from reading the Tim Swenson manual with the emulator is to use the QDC (Quintessential Disk Cloner from QLTools to create a floppy image, although I haven’t yet got round to testing if this works on 64-bit Windows or not). Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Rawread
Ah, thank you. Floopy is simple enough even for me :o) And cheap enough for me too (Freeware!) I tested it with a USB floppy as drive A: on my Windows 7 64-bit PC and it successfully if slowly created a disk image of a HD QL disk in about 10 minutes. It won't handle 720KB QL disks (it recognised it as such), only 1.4 MB ones on this system at least. Probably because Win7 doesn't handle 720K disks. MTools can be a bit overpowering with all those command line options. And I tested the Jonathan Hudson QDC, that also doesn't run on Win 7 64-bit. Dilwyn -Original Message- From: Wolfgang Lenerz Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 3:28 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Rawread And also http://neofreeman.freepgs.com/maxpert/floopy.php Le 23/01/2013 15:55, Dilwyn Jones a écrit : On my website there’s an article by IIRC Timothy Swenson about the use of RAWREAD and RAWRITE to create and write disk image files. Someone asked me (presumably trying out SMSQmulator) if there is a 64-bit Windows version of RAWREAD or RAWRITE, or equivalent software (RAWREAD is a DOS program which doesn’t run in 64-bit environments). I assume it might be possible to run 32-bit programs in something like virtual box too. Another solution gleaned from reading the Tim Swenson manual with the emulator is to use the QDC (Quintessential Disk Cloner from QLTools to create a floppy image, although I haven’t yet got round to testing if this works on 64-bit Windows or not). Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2890 / Virus Database: 2639/6041 - Release Date: 01/18/13 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Rawread
QDC should run in DOSBOX. I don't know if DOSBOX can address the USB floppy. It might just be a simple MOUNT command. If you have Cygwin installed, then dd can be used for reading both 720k and 1.44M floppies. I tested this recently and it worked. Tim ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
