Reading old disks on Linux

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Wed Oct 16 17:22:00 2002

Thanks
It has some good information, some errors, and some good and bad guesses
(such as saying that it is probably possible to read hard sectored disks
with PC hardware)


Are you trying to transfer files, or just read raw sectors?

Which "odd formats" are you trying to read?

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Fred Cisin                      cisin_at_xenosoft.com
XenoSoft                        http://www.xenosoft.com
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> 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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