Disk archival

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Jim Leonard" <trixter at oldskool.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 12:05 PM

> What version are YOU running?  My shareware version from the early 1990s 
> clearly can't do all that you describe.
>
> Christian Corti wrote:
>> On Mon, 16 May 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
>>
>>> Teledisk: works with MFM disks only, file format not published, limited
>>
>>
>> Well, that's not true at all.
>> 1.
>> TeleDisk works fine with FM *and* MFM disks, even with mixed coding, 
>> sector sizes and densities (IBM System/34 format, track 0 side 0 FM 26 
>> sect., 128 bytes/sect., additional directory tracks MFM 26 sect., 256 
>> bytes/sect., data tracks e.g. 8 sect.,1024 bytes/sect.), supports normal 
>> and deleted address marks, will read bad sectors anyway, stores sector ID 
>> fields as read (important for CBM 1581 disks with swapped head IDs) and 
>> so on. TeleDisk archives and restores everything your combination of FDC 
>> and FDD can do. For example I have a Multi I/O controller card with an 
>> FDC that supports 128 bytes/sect. MFM. This makes it possible to archive 
>> Robotron A5120 UDOS diskettes.
>> 2.
>> The file format has been reverse-engineered some time ago. See 
>> http://www.fpns.net/willy/wteledsk.htm for more information (it's not my 
>> site!).
>>
>> Christian
>
> -- 
> Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) 
> http://www.oldskool.org/
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The problem is in the hardware don't blame teledisk for poor PC hardware.  I 
keep a Compaq 575e (P100) just because it handles FM.


Randy
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