3 Oct
1998
3 Oct
'98
4:09 a.m.
On Thu, 01 Oct 1998 Max Eskin wrote:
Is there a device that would allow _any_ disk,
independently of
format, including Apple ][ disks, to be read? I know Teledisk can do
this for all conventional formats, but not Apple disks. It would be
nice to connect one of these and read the disk image into a file.
The main reason why I ask is for rescuing messed up floppies...
There is a product called Catweasel which is available for the Amiga and PC
(ISA card). This is a floppy disk controller which is capable of reading and/or
writing many disk formats.
According to a magazine article that I have in front of me, the ISA version
currently supports (amongst others) Amiga DD & HD, Apple II, Mac 400K & 800K,
Commodore 1541 & 1571. I don't know whether reading Mac 400K & 800K disks
requires a non-standard type of 3.5" drive or not.
PC software support is apparently not too good at the moment, meaning that you
will have to write your own code for more exotic disk formats. The supplied
MS-DOS programs require a 486 for no good reason. A Linux driver is supplied,
but this is object code only, not source. (IMO trying to keep the software that
accesses the card private like this is a really silly thing to do.)
Anyway, the URL given was http://www.jshoenfeld.com/eindex.html
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998 Kai Kaltenbach wrote:
Atari ST uses DOS format in the first place. Amiga can
be read on the PC by
Amiga emulators. C64, I have no idea, but I know at least you could use a
C128 to copy files to CP/M format.
Amiga disks cannot be read by normal PC disk controllers.
You can make a cable to hook up a 1541 disk drive to a PC or Amiga and read
files or disk images using this.
-- Mark