Re: [mtools] access Atari disks on OS X

[David C Niemi]

You need to use a 10-sector device (it SHOULD be fd0d800, I think, but 
give fd0u800 a try).  It's been a long time.  You may need to use fdutils 
to set the floppy driver to the right parameters.

DCN

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Will Janssen wrote:
> I'd like to make a disk-image from an Atari-ST disk using the command:
> mcat a: > ~/ataridisk.st
> The command works fine for 9-sector (80 tracks, 2 sides) disks, but so does
> the standard OS X "cat" or "dd"
>
> However "mcat" does not work with 10-sector disks. It just copies the first 9
> sectors of each track/side each 10th sector is skipped, so the image is
> garbage.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion what part of the sourcecode i should change so
> mtools can handle 10-sector Atari disks?
>
> Will
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