11 Oct
2008
11 Oct
'08
12:04 p.m.
On Saturday 11 October 2008 14:53, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
Al Kossow wrote:
Hrm... any ideas why it won't image 8 sector ? I'd think that
smaller # of sectors would be easier....
I remember using utilities under DOS to make funky formats...
but I was always shooting for more capacity in the day (extra
sector, extra tracks).... not less :-)
I remember some of those, too, and in fact had some in the files section of
my bbs. But I also remember stuff that would deal with "foreign" formats,
in particular there was "Media Master" and "Uniform". The former was
simply
a file transfer program, while the latter would actually "mount" a foreign
format disk under an otherwise unused drive letter, both of which I had
occasion to use under CP/M. I'm pretty sure that at least MM was available
under DOS as well, dunno about Uniform.
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
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M Dakin
David, do
you know whether ImageDisk will image them correctly?
It appears ImageDisk doesn't work with 8 sector ones.
The 3.51 utilities disks were copied OK with ImageDisk, except for the
VDI disk, which apparently is 8 sector.