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Re: Copying 4145A floppy - a suggestion
No. Why? Because I actually know exactly how magnetic data recording, floppy disks, floppy disk controllers, floppy controller device drivers, and "dd" work. -Dave
By Dave McGuire · #116293 ·
Re: Copying 4145A floppy - a suggestion
Have you actually used dd for this and had it not work? Bob
By Bob Stewart <bob@...> · #116292 ·
Re: Copying 4145A floppy - a suggestion
[replying to my own email, man I must be tired] I neglected to insert a paragraph regarding on-disk physical formats. As I mentioned earlier, FM, MFM, and GCR encoding for bit representation.
By Dave McGuire · #116291 ·
Re: Copying 4145A floppy - a suggestion
...except what is meant by "1" or "0" when you're encoding bits in different types of flux transmissions? Are you aware of, for example, FM, MFM, and GCR? If what you're saying were true, there
By Dave McGuire · #116290 ·
Re: Copying 4145A floppy - a suggestion
No. Strictly speaking, you're correct, "dd" itself doesn't care about disk formats. However, the underlying device driver does, and the floppy disk controller chip underneath that does. The
By Dave McGuire · #116289 ·
Re: Copying 4145A floppy - a suggestion
S ame in my experience. ?I have copied DOS discs, UNIX disks, ATARI discs, etc. ?It is is like doing a bit copy on a HD, ¡°1 or 0¡± Larry AC9OX
By Larry McElhiney · #116288 ·
Re: Copying 4145A floppy - a suggestion
"dd" doesn't care about disk formats.? It reads records sequentially and it writes records sequentially.? Unless they've put deliberate bad sectors on the disk, dd should work. Bob
By Bob Stewart <bob@...> · #116287 ·
Re: Copying 4145A floppy - a suggestion
There's virtually no chance of this working. This will only work if the disk is written in one of the few disk formats that are standard on PCs, which, as I understand it, the 4145A's is not.
By Dave McGuire · #116286 ·
Re: Difference between 4145A and B units
The original, working, HP-labeled boot disk in my 4145A is *not* hard-sectored. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
By Dave McGuire · #116285 ·
Re: Copying 4145A floppy - a suggestion
In my experience (from UNIX on), the dd command will copy anything except master diskettes which have a laser-shot hole in the medium for copy protection. ?Also slower (smaller chunks) seems more
By Larry McElhiney · #116284 ·
Copying 4145A floppy - a suggestion
"The "A" version uses a 5.25" diskette drive. The boot diskette is hard sector with a weird format that I've not been able to copy." I've renamed this to hopefully avoid threadjacking. If you have
By Bob Stewart <bob@...> · #116283 ·
Re: Difference between 4145A and B units
"Matt Huszagh" <huszaghmatt@...> wrote: The "A" version uses a 5.25" diskette drive. The boot diskette is hard sector with a weird format that I've not been able to copy. The "B" version uses
By Lyle Bickley · #116282 ·
Re: 4145B software disk
Hi Wayne, I'd be really interested to know the process for the A unit if you've written something up. This seems like a great solution. Thanks! Matt
By Matt Huszagh · #116281 ·
Difference between 4145A and B units
Hello, In what ways is the 4145B an upgrade from the 4145A? The B seems to sell for quite a bit more money. But, a quick look at the manual specifications seems to indicate they have similar
By Matt Huszagh · #116280 ·
Re: HP PN 1855-0418 Part Identification Help
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Re: HP PN 1855-0418 Part Identification Help
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Re: HP PN 1855-0418 Part Identification Help
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Re: HP PN 1855-0418 Part Identification Help
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By Bernardo Santos · #116275 ·
Re: How to fix broken HP key
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By Chuck Harris · #116274 ·