[Coco] Imaging MM/1 Floppy Disks

[Joel Ewy]

On 12/31/2015 08:30 PM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, Joel Ewy wrote:
>
>> On 12/31/2015 05:34 PM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>>> On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, Joel Ewy wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to image some MM/1 floppy disks, and not having any 
>>>> success yet.
>>>
>>> I recommend ImageDisk.
>>>
>>> http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm
>>>
>>> Runs under MS-DOS, but has never failed me for FM or MFM formatted 
>>> diskettes, no matter how bizzare the layout.
>
>>>
>> I've got an old machine running Windows 98 that I have used to write 
>> TRS-80 Model III disks recently, so I know the floppy controller is 
>> up to the job.  Do you know if the files produced by ImageDisk are 
>> compatible with, say, Toolshed?
>
> Native ImageDisk (.IMD) files have a bunch of metadata in them that 
> allows the program to write them back to media with the exact same 
> layout. However, you can use the IMDU utility (included in the 
> package) to convert an .IMD file to a binary sector image that's 
> compatible with Toolshed and various emulators.
>
> If you are trying to archive MM/1 disks for other users, the .IMD 
> format is a natural.  Most of the media archived on Bitsavers are IMD 
> files.
>
> Steve
>
>
I'll try this if I can't figure out any other solution.  But I'd still 
like to come up with a way to image these floppies that doesn't require 
a proprietary OS (aside from OS-9).

JCE