Imaging and Emulating Rainbow

[Warner Losh]

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.
>>
>>
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