Reading non-PC format floppies

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Mon Oct 22 19:01:28 2001

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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