Reading non-PC format floppies - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 Oct 2001

What about PUTR and about a slew of other programs that
know alternate formats?

Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) &lt;cisin(a)xenosoft.com&gt;
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
Date: Monday, October 22, 2001 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: Reading non-PC format floppies

...
 On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Jim Donoghue wrote:
> Any tools for reading non-PC 5 1/4" HD floppies out there? Tried reading
them
...
   with DOS
DEBUG, get 'Data Error'. 
DEBUG can only read legitimate MS-DOS disks.

For low-density ("360k"), Trakcess on the TRS-80 model III.

Central point option board, TE program.

Morgan Computing's Disk Toolkit (only for 512 byte per sector)

XenoCopy-PC

INT 13h

programming the FDC directly.

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