This new Disk Explorer looks like a good program, but I get the same problem as with the other two;


Files are damaged. For instance, I get a lot of

"Direct statement in file"

with files that used to work normally.


...So it must be this system after all.

are you in good tail of FDD
if you copy a 360k 1DD floppy on a 720k files you have some errors

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But could you please tell me how can you manage dsk images in Linux? I would like to operate with diskimages the way I use to do with DSKManager. That is: adding or removing files to a DSK image. I haven't found an easy way to do this in Debian.

As suggested before: loopback mounting works fine for this. I personally use the ancient wrdsk/rddsk tools for it though... But the coolest solution:

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Maybe that could be a nice-addon to the OpenMSX o BlueMSX projects.

openMSX already has this (Don't know about blueMSX, but we were talking Linux here.)

See:
http://openmsx.sourceforge.net/manual/diskmanipulator.html

And the new openMSX Catapult has a very cool GUI for this as well.http://openmsx.sourceforge.net/manual/diskmanipulator.html

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are you in good tail of FDD if you copy a 360k 1DD floppy on a 720k files you have some errors

Well, it happens with loose files I extract from one (virtual) 720k into another 720k floppy.

Files were okay, but once handled by these programs they get damaged.

I also tried modifying the programs' windows compatibility mode.

Oh well...

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This new Disk Explorer looks like a good program, but I get the same problem as with the other two; Files are damaged. For instance, I get a lot of "Direct statement in file" with files that used to work normally. ...So it must be this system after all.

Run Memtest86+ to see if your RAM chips are corrupted. I used get all sorts of errors extract and archiving files on my computer, then I used Memtest86+ and found my RAM were faulty. I replaced the RAM and now my computer is stable again.

http://www.memtest.org/

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Thanks...

It didn't seem to be the RAM.

...Could it have *anything* to do with Windows XP, by any chance?

What service packs do you have installed?

I don't think I have any...? Just "raw" windows xp here, recently installed on a fresh computer.

Copy real floppy disk to diskimage

cat /dev/fd0 > image.dsk

Setup loopback device

sudo losetup -f image.dsk

Mount disk image into file system. Any *existing and empty* directory will do. I use /mnt/floppy here... you may have to sudo this and add further options like umask 'n' stuff

mount -t msdos /dev/loop/0 /mnt/floppy

Have fun...

ls /mnt/floppy

Unmount disk image (sudo this if you used sudo for mount)

umount /mnt/floppy

Release loopback device

sudo losetup -d /dev/loop/0

Copy disk image back to real floppy

cat image.dsk > /dev/fd0

HTH HAND