[Techtoolslist] Samdisk looks very promising...

[Andre Huijts]

I just deinstalled the special drivers for Omniflop and rebooted my PC, this automatically reinstalled the default windows drivers for the floppy drive.

Then installed the fdrawcmd.sys file and copied Samdisk to my C: root.

Started a command box and fiddled around with some of the commands.

I got this info when doing the scan command:

83 Cyls, 2 heads:
250Kbps MFM, 16 sectors, 256 bytes/'sector

Then it started a list of what looks like info per track:
0.0 0 8 1 9 2 10 3 11 4 12 5 13 6 14 7 15
1.0 0 8 1 9 2 10 3 11 4 12 5 13 6 14 7 15

The first digit is the tracknr., the second the headnr. The other nrs are the sector numbers.

All tracks show the same info.

For tracks 80,81,82 it reports <blank>
So it looks like the format is 80 tracks.


Also did a "view" command and to my amazement I got to see all the bytes in hex and ASCII per sector.....I could read some info that makes sense so I guess at least Samdisk is reading the discs correctly.

Now making images...

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