22 Oct
2011
22 Oct
'11
12:15 p.m.
On 22/10/11 17:44, Liam Proven wrote:
How might I read a PCW floppy into a PC disk image?
It's a 3.5" 720 DD
disk. My PC does have a 3?" drive and runs Windows 7/64 and Ubuntu
11.10/64.
Are you sure about that? I was under the impression the PCW9512 used a
3-inch drive... EME-231 or something like that.
You probably won't be able to do this under Win7; it doesn't allow
low-level access to the disc controller. Similar story for Linux, unless
you feel like writing a driver (or patching the existing driver) to do so.
In my humble opinion you're probably best off using something along the
lines of a DiscFerret or Catweasel and then decoding it with cwfloppy,
cw2dmk or similar.
... Or you could boot off a DOS floppy which loads RAMDRIVE, then use
22Disk from the RAM drive. Save the image to a 1.4MB floppy, and job
done. I seem to recall FreeDOS having USB Mass Storage drivers available
-- if that's the case, you could even use a USB thumbdrive.
Cheers,
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/