Date   : Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:06:02 +0100
From   : bbcmailinglist@... (Ian Wolstenholme)
Subject: Writing BBC Disc Images on Linux

For some reason, I seem to have overlooked the second half of Andrew
Benham's page.  I did download the libdsk utility the other day, and it seemed
to install but nothing else happened.  I think at the time I was probably
expecting
something new to appear on the Applications menu which is perhaps the
wrong thing to be expecting.

it looks like I almost had it right with setfdprm except I was using "size"
instead
of "ssize", which was accepted as a command but was producing the wrong disc
sizes when formatting.

I'll have a go with these setfdprm options later, I'm not at the right machine at
the moment.

Best wishes,



Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: Rob [mailto:robert@...]
To: bbc-micro@...
Sent: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:06:15 +0100
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Writing BBC Disc Images on Linux

2009/4/15 Ian Wolstenholme <bbcmailinglist@...>:
>
> The next step is to get it to write BBC ADFS & DFS discs. ?I've been trying
> out setfdprm but I don't really know what parameters I can use, and the
> manual page says "This documentation is grossly incomplete"!!
>

Have you tried the examples in the second half of
http://www.adsb.co.uk/bbc/linux/ (as posted by Michael earlier)?

I'd have a go, but all my Beeb discs are on 5.25", and the Linux &
UNIX machines only have 3.5" drives..

Rob

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