"A DiskVaccuum For Obsolete Disk Formats"

On Jan 14, 2014, at 09:25 , Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote: My KryoFlux does work with my Mac under OSX, but its flaw is the lack of general write support without using the parent company's paid disk analysis services. Without having investigated it myself, I'm willing to accept that reading a funky write-protected format and then being able to write it to a new disk in a way that satisfies the copy protection is tricky and difficult or impossible to automate. But for my own selfish purposes, I would be quite satisfied to have a good solution to read regular non-copy-protected disks and write them back out in a way that satisfies stock DOSes, just for keeping old hardware alive and fed with operating systems and basic utilities. The public domain Disk-Utilities package looks promising in conjunction with KryoFlux, but I haven't gotten around to trying to adapt it for the non-PC formats that interest me. Trying to bring this up on the KryoFlux support forums tends to agitate hostile responses. It's quite frustrating. Almost frustrating enough to motivate me to develop a competing product, but that would be a very large job to do well, and my darned day job ties up most of my time and gumption. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net> http://www.nf6x.net/