Quite a while ago (and maybe more than once) we had a thread on
reading/writing 'odd' disk formats. I thought about it again, typed a few
words into google, and found this:
http://fdutils.linux.lu/Fdutils.html#SEC22
It looks like setfdprm and superformat will do much of what's necessary in
working with 'odd' format disks. I haven't played much with it yet, but
I've verified it works for setting the density, heads, cyls, and
sect/track of the disk to write to. However, it doesn't allow for
setting an initial sector number - something that's necessary for some
formats. Using the program "fdrawcmd" should overcome any obsticles, but
will require more work to be useful.
I just thought I'd pass this along in case people would find it useful.
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"This fucking university has shown time and time again that it is
completely fucking incompetent when it comes to employing technology"
-- Anonymous
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Received on Wed Oct 16 2002 - 16:21:00 BST
