Date   : Tue, 25 Dec 2007 11:21:17 +0000
From   : mike@... (Michael Howard)
Subject: DFS Imager

John Kortink wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:42:56 +0000, Michael Howard wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello and a Merry Christmas to you All,
>>
>> My appologies if this has been done to death but I'm looking for some 
>> software to image the numerous DFS (and ADFS but I have that sorted) 
>> floppies I have lying around. These are old BBC/C & Electron 5.25" 
>> floppys and although I still have beebs/elks I would prefer not to use 
>> software such as 'xfer' over a serial cable to a PC/RiscPc.
>>
>> Anadisk is brilliant at copying disks, but I don't want duplicates of 
>> the physical media, just images to save to backup media.
>>
>> I've tried Omniflop on a PC with both a 3.5" & 5.25" attached but it's 
>> not been at all successful.
>>
>> I have an A5000 withh a Cumana 5.25" drive attached and can read these 
>> discs using !DFSreader. What I would like is something that can grab the 
>> images in such a format that I could restore them should the need arise 
>> in the future. BBC/Risc OS/Windows based, any would surfice but as I 
>> say, I cannot get Omniflop to play ball.
>>
>> Hopefully somebody has been through this already and could pass on their 
>> knowledge?
>>     
>
> You have GoMMC. What stops you using that ? Copy from
> physical floppy to MMC or from MMC to physical floppy
> on a BBC with disc drive, and backup/restore the images
> via a PC with flash card reader.
>
> Unless your BBC does not have a disc drive, of course.
>
>
> John Kortink
>
>   
Well it's not the getting of the indivdual files that is my problem.

You are right, I could do as you say, or use the A5000, !DFSReader and 
the 5.25" drive that is attached to the A5000. What I am looking to do 
though is to create single replica images of the disks ala, FCFS, 
!DImager, !DiskImage etc but obviously for DFS disks.

I did see mention by a 'Michael McConnell' that he had modified 
DFSReader to create images but I've been unable to track the modified 
program(dfsimg.bas) down.

Cheers,
Mike.

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Michael Howard         mike at dewberryfields dot co dot uk
Lancashire
England