RaWrite2
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RAWRITE2 is a floppy image file writer/creator distributed under version 2.0 of the GNU General Public License.

It is intended to allow the user to create raw images from a floppy or dump such images to floppy, supporting not only standard formats (360KB, 720KB or 1.44 MB) but a lot more: all fd format and 2m formats, or any other given number of tracks and sectors.

It runs under MS-DOS 3.2 or later

Usage

• To make a disk image: RAWRITE2 U: file [options]
• To copy an image to disk: RAWRITE2 file [file file ...] U: [options]
  • "U:" is floppy drive A: or B:
  • "file" is the image file name (i.e. boot.img)
  • "options" is one of
    • /Fxxx for xxx size floppy (default 1.44 MB)
    • /R read size from sector 0 (only DOS floppies)
    • /N do not use BIOS, use DOS instead or a combination of
    • /Txx xx=number of tracks (max 84, default=80)
    • /Sxx xx=number of sectors (default=18)
    • /Bxxx xxx=sector size in bytes (default=512)
    • /Hx x=number of heads (1 or 2, default=2)

The destination disk must be previously formattedted.

See also : RaWrite and disk image.

External links

• http://www.navegalia.com/personal/maacruz

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