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| Making images - Alternatives to Disk Manager?
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DemonSeed
msx master
Posts: 1033 |  Posted: November 29 2007, 19:34 |
This new Disk Explorer looks like a good program, but I get the same problem as with the other two;
Files are damaged. For instance, I get a lot of
"Direct statement in file"
with files that used to work normally.
...So it must be this system after all.  |
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Jipe
msx freak
Posts: 205 | Posted: November 29 2007, 19:56 |
are you in good tail of FDD
if you copy a 360k 1DD floppy on a 720k files you have some errors
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manuel
msx guru
Posts: 3545 | Posted: November 29 2007, 20:59 |
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| But could you please tell me how can you manage dsk images in Linux? I would like to operate with diskimages the way I use to do with DSKManager. That is: adding or removing files to a DSK image. I haven't found an easy way to do this in Debian.
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As suggested before: loopback mounting works fine for this. I personally use the ancient wrdsk/rddsk tools for it though... But the coolest solution:
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| Maybe that could be a nice-addon to the OpenMSX o BlueMSX projects.
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openMSX already has this  (Don't know about blueMSX, but we were talking Linux here.)
See:
http://openmsx.sourceforge.net/manual/diskmanipulator.html
And the new openMSX Catapult has a very cool GUI for this as well.http://openmsx.sourceforge.net/manual/diskmanipulator.html |
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DemonSeed
msx master
Posts: 1033 | Posted: November 29 2007, 21:40 |
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| are you in good tail of FDD
if you copy a 360k 1DD floppy on a 720k files you have some errors
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Well, it happens with loose files I extract from one (virtual) 720k into another 720k floppy.
Files were okay, but once handled by these programs they get damaged.
I also tried modifying the programs' windows compatibility mode.
Oh well...
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rolins
msx addict
Posts: 257 | Posted: November 29 2007, 22:14 |
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| This new Disk Explorer looks like a good program, but I get the same problem as with the other two;
Files are damaged. For instance, I get a lot of
"Direct statement in file"
with files that used to work normally.
...So it must be this system after all.
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Run Memtest86+ to see if your RAM chips are corrupted. I used get all sorts of errors extract and archiving files on my computer, then I used Memtest86+ and found my RAM were faulty. I replaced the RAM and now my computer is stable again.
http://www.memtest.org/
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DemonSeed
msx master
Posts: 1033 | Posted: December 04 2007, 19:12 |
Thanks...
It didn't seem to be the RAM.
...Could it have *anything* to do with Windows XP, by any chance?
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dvik
msx master
Posts: 1343 | Posted: December 04 2007, 19:29 |
What service packs do you have installed?
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DemonSeed
msx master
Posts: 1033 | Posted: December 05 2007, 01:54 |
I don't think I have any...? Just "raw" windows xp here, recently installed on a fresh computer. |
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AuroraMSX
msx master
Posts: 1262 | Posted: December 07 2007, 20:29 |
Copy real floppy disk to diskimage cat /dev/fd0 > image.dsk
Setup loopback device sudo losetup -f image.dsk
Mount disk image into file system. Any *existing and empty* directory will do. I use /mnt/floppy here... you may have to sudo this and add further options like umask 'n' stuff mount -t msdos /dev/loop/0 /mnt/floppy
Have fun... ls /mnt/floppy
Unmount disk image (sudo this if you used sudo for mount) umount /mnt/floppy
Release loopback device sudo losetup -d /dev/loop/0
Copy disk image back to real floppy cat image.dsk > /dev/fd0
HTH HAND
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