Re: D9090 back to life !

From: Steve Gray <sjgray_at_rogers.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 07:21:49 -0500
Message-Id: <EF01C791-9C3B-41AA-A3FE-0AC90AEECA0E@rogers.com>
Perhaps D96 and D99 ;-)

Steve


> On Jan 27, 2014, at 6:37 AM, "A. Fachat" <afachat@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> The Track number starts at zero? But there can't be any data blocks there as track 0 says "end of file block"....
> 
> Btw the file extension d90 should be free for use, but d60 might be used for the (even more scarce?) 8060 8" floppy drives...
> 
> André
> 
> 
> Am 27. Januar 2014 12:11:17 schrieb Rob Clarke <crock@clarke-family.org.uk>:
> 
>> 
>> >> I'd now like to extract a complete image of the drive to see if there is any deleted files that may be of interest. I was going to use the WMUTIL.PRG basic/ml program written by Andre Fachet and Bo Zimmerman to pull an image but does the concept of a .D90 image exist?
>> > Why not, it should just be an image in ascending order of
>> > (track,sector), 256 bytes per sector.
>> > The cbmlink software by me includes a disk image reader, which
>> > basically increments the sector and track counters until an illegal
>> > track or sector is reported, and then steps to sector 0 on the next
>> > track, or ends copying when the track number becomes invalid.
>> > I hope that the WMUTIL.PRG does the same.
>> 
>> Yes, it does (only I spelt it wrong, it's EMUTIL). The only gotcha is that the track numbers run from 0 on the D9060/D9090 and 1 on the floppy drives.
>> 
>> > It should not be too hard to modify cbmconvert to support D9090
>> > images.  There is only a single directory, right? And the maximum file
>> > system size is 255 tracks, 256 sectors per track, 256 bytes per
>> > sector, right?  That would be a bit under 16 megabytes (16 MiB - 64
>> > KiB).
>> > I could actually be interested to do this; it has been a while since I
>> > updated the tool. :)
>> 
>> Sounds olike an excellent plan! I'm not yet familiar with the detailed internals for the HD's but yes, I think so. As I said above the tracks go from 0-152 and the sector numbers run from 0-127 on the D9060 and 0-195 on the D9090.
>> 
>> Rob
>> 
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