Date   : Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:17:42 +0100
From   : itonks@... (Ian Tonks)
Subject: Duplicating DFS / ADFS floppies

I seem to remember there was a useful tool ROM called Enigma Disk Imager
although I can't recall ever trying to duplicate ADFS disks with it.
 <goes away and plays for a sec...>
I've just checked with beebem and it appears capable of duplicating ADFS
disks without the ADFS ROM being fitted. I do think it needs a 1770...

Ian

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[mailto:bbc-micro-bounces+itonks=yahoo.co.uk@...] On Behalf
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Sent: 29 August 2007 10:41
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Subject: [BBC-Micro] Duplicating DFS / ADFS floppies


What's the least-painless way of duplicating both DFS and ADFS floppies?

Potentially-useful stuff I've got:

   A B+ with both ADFS and 1770 DFS ROMs in it.
   An EPROM burner.
   A floppy with a working copy of AFORM on it so I can format ADFS disks.

Possibilities seem to be:

   - Some sort of simple one-liner already built into both DFS and ADFS
     ROMs (seems unlikely).
   - Some sort of simple BASIC program to do a sector-by-sector copy
     (assuming a formatted destination disk)
   - Some sort of downloaded floppy-based utility to do the job.
   - Some sort of utility that might already be lurking on various
     welcome, utils etc. disks.
   - Some sort of ROM-based utility to do the job.

What are other people using? I suspect it's far easier for me to download a 
ROM image and burn an EPROM than it is for me to download a disk image and 
write that out (the latter involves either screwing around with xfer, or 
bouncing the image to a machine that'll both understand the image format and

is able to write sector data correctly)

I think I've got Watford and Viglen utils disks kicking around the place,
but 
I suspect that even if they do come with a duplicator, they won't be happy 
with ADFS media. The only copy of the ADFS utils disk I have is
unfortunately 
trashed (and version 0.1 too and so probably full 'o bugs :-)

ta

Jules

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