As the subject says, what would be the best way to make a dump from a CP/M floppy disk? It's a boot disk from my Bondwell Model 2, and I'd like to save it, for just in case that the floppy breaks.
What would be the best way to make a dump from a CP/M floppy disk?
If by any chance its on a 5.25inch disk, you could always do a raw image of the disk. I beleve WinImage is able to do this, however I think there is better software for the task.
WinImage won't recognize CP/M disks. And there are literally thousands of different CP/M formats. As a result there is sadly really no such thing as a "raw" format for CP/M, "raw" assumes the low-level details (geometry, sector interleave, sector skew, etc) are known.
Bondwell Model 2 CP/M disks can be archived with ImageDisk. http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm running on an 100% IBM PC compatible computer with a 3.5" drive. (Which excludes lobotomized USB floppy drives).
According to my info the Bondwell Model 2 uses a single sided double (low) density 3.5" format.
I was actually doing some research and stumbled along a floppy controller called "kryoflux", which basically is able to copy a raw stream of data from the drive. Its compatible with anything that uses the standard floppy connector that would be plugged into a motherboard and connects to a computer via USB2.
Comments
If by any chance its on a 5.25inch disk, you could always do a raw image of the disk. I beleve WinImage is able to do this, however I think there is better software for the task.
TheWalkingContradiction
Bondwell Model 2 CP/M disks can be archived with ImageDisk. http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm running on an 100% IBM PC compatible computer with a 3.5" drive. (Which excludes lobotomized USB floppy drives).
According to my info the Bondwell Model 2 uses a single sided double (low) density 3.5" format.
Here's a review done by LGR on the device that might explain it better...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqLv8d-W-9c
TheWalkingContradiction