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FDIO - floppy drive utility - John AS (UK) - 03-05-2010
Hi,
Found this site today:
http://www.hp9845.net/9845/projects/fdio/
FDIO is designed to read early HP floppy disk formats, to create and restore disk images under Windows.
Not tried it yet, looks like a useful tool.
Same person as HPDRIVE utility, so a good pedigree!
Regards,
John
Re: FDIO - floppy drive utility - Egan Ford - 03-08-2010
I wanted to give this a shot to see if this would work like Tony Duell's lifdump/lifimage for Linux, but the RAW FD driver does not support USB drives.
I only own notebooks and they all use USB floppy drives (if ever needed). The only exception is my 200MHz, 32MB, RH9 Linux/FreeDOS machine that I use with my HP-IL ISA adapter. I do not think XP will run on it.
Perhaps another can try to see if they can read a 9114B disk and convert it to a LIF image for use with EMU* (and vv.). I can do this with lifdump/lifimage on any of my Linux machines with floppy drives (however I have not tested a USB floppy drive).