[Techtoolslist] OmniFlop

[Martin White]

IIRC they’re OS/9 floppies - not of Mac OS 9 fame. At the time that I looked before (2008 / 9 maybe?) it was one of the formats that required a purchased license. Obviously that could well have changed by now.

 

I tried to use Omniflop quite a lot with Acorn BBC / Archimedes disks and I was able to get it to work under XP but I was never able to get the 64bit Windows 7 version to work. I went through a few mails with the developer who didn’t have a 64bit Windows based PC  so all he was able to say was “<insert name> has got it working but I’ve got no way to test / debug it” so I never got any further with it.

 

It was great while it worked but I moved on from Windows XP a long, long time ago now.


 


From: Andre Huijts
Sent: ‎11‎ ‎November‎ ‎2012 ‎21‎:‎49
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Subject: Re: [Techtoolslist] OmniFlop


I did a test with OmniFlop and it reports that the Fluke floppies have the following format:

80/2/18/512

My guess is
80 tracks
2 sides
18 sectors per track
512 bytes per sector

I did notice the floppy format was mentioned somewhere in the Fluke docs but I forgot in which....will try to find it but if anyone else already knows......please confirm this is correct or not...

Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad

Op 11 nov. 2012 om 22:35 heeft Andre Huijts <a.huijts at upcmail.nl> het volgende geschreven:


> Guys,

> 

> I found this very promising looking program to back up the Fluke 9100 floppies:

> 

> http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFlop/OmniFlop.htm

> 

> I like it because it runs under Windows, yes even W7 and it supports a load of formats, amongst them OS-9 formats.

> 

> As a test I am now backing up the V6.0 disks. If anyone is able to recreate these floppies using OmniFlop and try them on a 9100a that would be great,

> I didn't have the time yet to hook up a monitor/ TV.

> 

> Instead I dug out my PC which hasn't been used since 2005.....which eventually worked after getting some Raid 0 errors and the videocard loosing power because of what looks like a burnt power connector....

> 

> Anyway, OmniFlop recognizes the Fluke floppies as Gravograph ISIS format, which is a computer controlled engraving machine.

> 

> If anyone has a "spare" system they can try out these floppy images on so that we know if OmniFlop works for us that would be great ! :)

> 

> Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad

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