Date   : Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:53:58 +0100
From   : mark@... (Mark Usher)
Subject: Box assorted floppies

It's an image, the format of the disk doesn't matter :-) The disk images
will be just a long sequence of bytes etc etc. We will be able to use the
image to write another disc.

-Mark

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:bbc-micro-bounces+mark=bbcdocs.com@...] On
> Behalf Of Rick Murray
> Sent: 30 July 2010 12:42
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Box assorted floppies
> 
> On 30/07/2010 12:44, Rob wrote:
> 
> > Tried with one of JGHs utils. but it seemed to be limited to 640K
> > discs, and the first disc I tried was an 800K!
> 
> I suppose the question is in which format is the disc? 640K would be
> right for a FileStore disc, but would you want to run the stuff for the
> FileStore *from* the FileStore?
> 
> 
> You said you wanted to do the images on an A5000 (wasn't it?) - did the
> computer itself not recognise the floppy? I'm struggling to think of an
> 800K format that is not D or E (both of which any RISC OS machine will
> read).
> 
> 
> Important - for if we can't work out a format, it won't be easy to pull
> data from it!
>    http://mdfs.net/Docs/Comp/Disk/Format/Formats
> 
> FileStore's own discs are like ADFS-L but with a different layout
> (AFS0). I've some code to pull files from such discs, and I've no doubt
> I can throw together something a little better in VB if need be...
> 
> 
> Can you look using a sector editor? Does it respond as 256 or 1024 byte
> sectors? Is there any ID information in the first few sectors?
>    http://mdfs.net/Docs/Comp/Disk/Format/ADFS
>    http://www.heyrick.co.uk/econet/fs/afs0.html
> 
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Rick.
> 
> --
> Rick Murray, eeePC901 & ADSL WiFI'd into it, all ETLAs!
> BBC B: DNFS, 2 x 5.25" floppies, EPROM prog, Acorn TTX
> E01S FileStore, A3000/A5000/RiscPC/various PCs/blahblah...
> 
> 
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