Hello Mark,
well I suppose it would be very useful for this kind of operations.
And as the whole read operation would be in the control of the PC,
you could retrieve the whole disk, or a part, or a single sector..
whatever you want.
The first step is to debug it and let it work with SIMH.
Then I will try it with my 8" double floppy unit.
At this time, adding support for any other drive would be a matter of
knowing the peripheral
control registers and producing a set of scripts from these informations.
I will keep you informed about it.
Thanks
Andrea