Re: Floppy Disk Images

2017-08-12 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 8/11/17 10:58 AM, Marvin Johnston via cctalk wrote: I have probably at least 10,000 floppy disks of many flavors (formats, hard sector, soft sector, various TPI and Tracks/disk, 3.5"/5.25?/8", etc.) I've been thinking about this, and you need to organize what you want to read and get this

Re: Floppy Disk Images

2017-08-11 Thread Mike Stein via cctalk
still work; if they're from a Corvus box it might be more challenging. m - Original Message - From: "Al Kossow via cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> To: <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2017 4:58 PM Subject: Re: Floppy Disk Images > > > On

Re: Floppy Disk Images

2017-08-11 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 8/11/17 12:12 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > There is a very nice MFM-emulator by David Gesswein. It works very well. I've dumped several hundred 5" drives with it which resulted in added support for many different controllers in his decoder. 8" shugart interface drives are rising on

Re: Floppy Disk Images

2017-08-11 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 08/11/2017 10:58 AM, Marvin Johnston via cctalk wrote: > I seem to recall this topic has been brought up a couple of times > over the past 20 years or so that ClassicCmp has been in existance, > but I can't find the info. And technology has advanced :). > > I have probably at least 10,000

Re: Floppy Disk Images

2017-08-11 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Christian Groessler via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 08/11/17 19:58, Marvin Johnston via cctalk wrote: > >> And just to make it interesting, I have a number of hard disks (5mb to >> maybe 20mb) of both 5.35" and 8". I've got several Lobo

Re: Floppy Disk Images

2017-08-11 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
fredag 11 augusti 2017 skrev Christian Groessler via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org>: > > > > a related question (wanted to ask since long, but this post reminded me > now): > > Is there a similar tool like IMD to dump (MFM-) hard disks? There is a very nice MFM-emulator by David Gesswein. It

Re: Floppy Disk Images

2017-08-11 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
Hi, On 08/11/17 19:58, Marvin Johnston via cctalk wrote: And just to make it interesting, I have a number of hard disks (5mb to maybe 20mb) of both 5.35" and 8". I've got several Lobo drives 8" hard drives that I would love to get the information from since they came from Lobo Drives when