14 Aug
2016
14 Aug
'16
10:45 a.m.
I've read Rainbow disks with both Linux and FreeBSD's floppy drivers. However,
the track layout is 'weird' and I never hacked together anything to cope so that
mount and friends would be able to read the disks.
There was a raindrive.sys, iirc, that did this well enough for DOS to access the
files, but I can't find any copies of it now.
Warner
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
If it's running MS-DOS, you should be able to
find/write something to do a raw image
dump out the serial port.
That reminds me, I need to image some Rainbow floppies I have.
I would think someone would have already written this in the MS-DOS world.
On 8/14/16 8:54 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 8/14/16 3:55 AM, Rob Jarratt wrote:
I have a Rainbow 100+ with a working hard disk. I
want to image the disk
before it fails and then emulate the Rainbow. The disk is an RD51 and
appears to have 4 partitions on it.
MAME supports it. It was a bear to get working correctly.