Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!ugle.unit.no!ugle.runit.sintef.no!thoger From: thoger@solan.unit.no (Terje Th|gersen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: R/W Non standard floppies Message-ID: Date: 16 Mar 91 17:42:00 GMT References: <1991Mar14.072056.9601@csis.dit.csiro.au> <%B*=K3{@rpi.edu> Sender: news@ugle.unit.no Organization: Institute of Physical Chemistry, NTH Lines: 40 In-Reply-To: ncc1701@itsgw.rpi.edu's message of 15 Mar 91 18:04:31 GMT In article <%B*=K3{@rpi.edu> ncc1701@itsgw.rpi.edu (Mark O. Chadwick) writes: rackland@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ross Ackland) writes: >I want to write DOS a program that is capable of Reading and Writing >to an iRMX-86 formatted floppy. iRMX-86 is Intel's OS and the problem >is that the floppy uses 26 sectors/track 128 bytes/sector, which is >not supported in the PC. Whew! I thought I was the only one with a problem like that! What I am looking for is some way of reading 40 tracks of 18 sectors/track, 256 bytes/ sector. I am almost positive I have seen a program that read these disks before, but I can't remember what it was... If anyone out there either has or knows the program, or has some Turbo-C code, or knows where to get any of the above, I'd be so happy to get that info! I'm getting desperate! :-) Thanks in advance! -- Mark "Emerson" Chadwick ncc1701@rpi.edu or usergdes@rpitsmts.bitnet Hmm.. i'm not sure if this is what you want, but in the /mirrors/msdos/dskutl dir on wuarchive.wustl.edu there's a program called 22dsk134.zip which carries this description : "CP/M<->Diskette xfer, over 100 formats. SYDEX". I used this program to read some weird CP/M type formats a while back. It worked OK. I remember that some program I used also let you set up user-specified disk formats, although I'm not sure if this was the Sybex package. The other program might also be at wustl. (It's been a while, I'm sorry I can't be more specific) Regards, -Terje -- ____________________________________________________________________________ thoger@solan.unit.no | Institute of Physical Chemistry THOGER AT NORUNIT.BITNET | Div. of Computer Assisted Instrumental Analysis | Norwegian Institute of Technology