14 Aug
2014
14 Aug
'14
4:06 p.m.
At 01:38 PM 8/14/2014, you wrote:
See this for a fuller explanation:
www.samplerzone.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=3251
I was talking
abut proprietary floppies, not regular ones.
There are two things here:
1) software: proprietary format on disk (i.e. not FAT32, NTFS, etc)
2) hardware: proprietary disk format (i.e. quickdisk instead of "standard")
#1 is just a stream of bits, which is what dd excels at. #2 wouldn't
be any easier on a Windows box, I'm not aware of windows attached
QuickDisk drives for example. If it works on Linux, I would be shocked if it
didn't work on Mac,
because underneath macOS on the command line, you have a full Unix
system, very much like Linux other than the kernel, which isn't really
relevant to a floppy drive device.
I'd hope so... but I believe what Apple puts forward lines up to what they want, and
my feeling is that "dd" is not working or not included. Otherwise that would be
a solution to many problems that have lasted years. Since it hasn't been solved, I
assume dd has been tried and found wanting. But I'm optimistic, but real at the same
time. Let get it tested first.
I think Gordon here (Linux only man) knows the right parameters. I think with all the
Akai, Roland, Emu, Ensoniq, it's all 10 sector stuff instead of 9 sector.
I look forward to hearing the results. I could write
the data (I have
a mac and a USB floppy) but I have no way to verify that it's
right....
Why don't you take a S5x floppy, read it using dd, then write it using dd, and see if
your S5x reads it still? That's essentially what I will do when I get back.
Garth Hjelte
Sampler User