21 Feb
2008
21 Feb
'08
7:07 p.m.
On Thursday 21 February 2008 19:18, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
other useful tools that work well are
"rawrite" or rawcopy.
though if you must use dos to read floppies, I always prefer teledisk,
however it uses a proprietary format teledisk compresses so it makes the
images smaller, and it also has handlers for errors, etc.
if you use linux/bsd, you can simply put the disk in the drive and use dd
like: dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/home/myhome/outputfile.iso
(modify the path as needed)
utilities like rawrite/rawcopy can read the images created by dd so that
makes it pretty handy.
it creates a raw binary dump of the disk in generic format.
Dan.
Interesting stuff, I've used rawrite for my first linux installation way back
in 1999, as the system I had to install it to then didn't boot from a
CD. :-)
At this point I have some image files that were apparently created with the
ImageDisk program, and while I can use a file viewer (F3 in mc :-) to see
the innards of the file I'm not sure what the original format was, and am
running into a bit of a problem with non-contiguous files. The images in
question are for the Bigboard II, so it's possible they might even be for an
8" format, and I sure don't have one of those hooked up to any linux box.
Any hints on getting past this to where I can extract the files into something
I can fiddle with would be much appreciated. I'm basically looking at
assembly source, mostly, and would likely want to end up with something on
a 5.25" format. Only suggestion I've gotten so far is to set up a dos box,
which I suppose I could do, but I'd rather avoid that if I can, space here
being a little short at the moment.
From: jdbryan
at acm.org
To: cctech at classiccmp.org
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:52:05 -0500
CC:
Subject: Re: E-Mail-Adress
On 21 Feb 2008 at 17:35, Soenke.Backhaus at FH-Augsburg.D wrote:
_________________________________________________________________ I want to get the information out of
5.1/4"-hp64000-floppys. I'd like
to store the files at a windows95 or windowsXP-computer(or maybe dos).
I have used Dave Dunfield's ImageDisk program:
http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/
...to archive HP 64000 diskettes to a PC. The accompanying IMDU program
will generate a binary dump of the diskette image, which can be used with
a (hex) file browser to view the diskette contents.
Connecting the actual 360K floppy from a 64000 system produced more
reliable results than using the 1.2M floppy that was present in the PC.
-- Dave