[plug] `dd` and SSDD floppies?

[Mark Hutchison]

Try a msdos program called  teledisk it saves a compressed image of the floppy
and can recreate the disk from the image file, even microbee disks. It is
avaliable on the net.

Mark.

Peter Caffin wrote:
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> Kevin wrote that I should check out a program called Alienc. If it's the
> one for DOS by FBN Software, I have a copy :). It's a rather nice program
> that covers a lot of file formats allowing you to format disks and copy
> software between DOS and CP/M formats. Downside: it doesn't work with PCs
> faster than 386-class (timings). There's also a program called 22disk
> which does a lot of CP/M formats, though Microbee 3.5" (800K or 386K)
> formats aren't covered.
> 
> I've recently picked up system disks for the box I have (a Microbee
> Computer-In-A-Book), which includes floppy to floppy disk copying.. But
> then I'd also like to be able capture the images to media a bit more
> durable. Plus, I think it'd be rather nice to be able to submit boot disk
> images to the CP/M archive :).
> 
> Mike Holland wrote:
> > What device were you using?
> 
> On this Debian system, /dev/fd0 is device 2,0.
> 
> > Did you try /dev/fd0H360 etc?
> 
> Unfortunately, other more specific device names aren't recognised by
> Debian's /dev/MAKEDEV script. I've just done a quick grep of
> /var/doc/doc-rfc/* and couldn't find `Devices`. Do you have suggested
> device numbers for mknod?
> 
> OTOH, I'm not massively confident it will work. I suspect it's still going
> to try grabbing data from the second side; but this time only grabbing
> half the data from the first side. Still, it's worth a try :).
> 
> > Read the man pages fd(4).
> 
> Not present on this box, but no doubt a websearch will turn up something.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions :).
> 
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