24 Oct
2011
24 Oct
'11
3:47 a.m.
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 08:15:47PM +0100, Philip Pemberton wrote:
On 22/10/11 17:44, Liam Proven wrote:
The 9512+ had a 3.5" drive.
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 Linux, you should be able to use dd to copy the disk to an image
file. There are then countless choices for extracting data from it.
Alternatively you could install MSDOS in some virtualisation thing (on
either Windows or Linux) and if that lets you access the floppy drive at
all it will let you access the raw device using 22DISK. If you want to
do it entirely for free, then Virtualbox and FreeDOS is the way to go.
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