Re: [Ql-Users] Rawread

2013-01-24 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Ah, thank you. Floopy is simple enough even for me :o) And cheap enough for me too (Freeware!) I tested it with a USB floppy as drive A: on my Windows 7 64-bit PC and it successfully if slowly created a disk image of a HD QL disk in about 10 minutes. It won't handle 720KB QL disks (it

Re: [Ql-Users] Rawread

2013-01-24 Thread Timothy Swenson
I tested both 720K and 1.44M floppy images (in the simplest of tests). I can do some further testing with 1.44 (read, write, etc) and see if I can get any failure. Tim Swenson ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Rawread

2013-01-24 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Le 25/01/2013 01:55, Timothy Swenson a écrit : I tested both 720K and 1.44M floppy images (in the simplest of tests). I can do some further testing with 1.44 (read, write, etc) and see if I can get any failure. Ah yes, contrary to the documentation (I'll amend this) SMSQmulator should handle

Re: [Ql-Users] Rawread

2013-01-23 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
This might help? http://reboot.pro/topic/14354-buidlingmodifying-floppy-images-with-mtools-as-replacement-for-winimageimdisk/ Le 23/01/2013 15:55, Dilwyn Jones a écrit : On my website there’s an article by IIRC Timothy Swenson about the use of RAWREAD and RAWRITE to create and write disk

Re: [Ql-Users] Rawread

2013-01-23 Thread Dilwyn Jones
: Wolfgang Lenerz Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 3:28 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Rawread And also http://neofreeman.freepgs.com/maxpert/floopy.php Le 23/01/2013 15:55, Dilwyn Jones a écrit : On my website there’s an article by IIRC Timothy Swenson about the use

Re: [Ql-Users] Rawread

2013-01-23 Thread Timothy Swenson
QDC should run in DOSBOX. I don't know if DOSBOX can address the USB floppy. It might just be a simple MOUNT command. If you have Cygwin installed, then dd can be used for reading both 720k and 1.44M floppies. I tested this recently and it worked. Tim