I’ll chip in my 5 cents and say that i’ve had good experiences with PUTR, a DOS based utility can can read, write, and mount a lot of DEC formats. I quite successfully used it to make myself a few bootable RX50 floppies for my 11/23.
Of course, YMMV, and you’ll need a DOS/9x machine to use it, but from my experiences, it’s really quite powerful, and though i haven’t used it for disk imaging, i’m pretty sure it supports that too. Josh. > On May 14, 2023, at 5:12 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > On 5/14/23 06:58, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: >> On Sun, May 14, 2023, 7:47 AM Chris Zach via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> Well, after a good bit of work I have finally gotten my Compaq XE4000 up >>> and running with Windows 98, the BIOS all set, a new battery, and of >>> course a 1.2mb 5.25 floppy that seems to be working. >>> >> >> I'd avoid teledisk. I'd look at Dave Dunfield's ImageDisk. It produces >> those img files directly. It's linked from >> http://dunfield.classiccmp.org/img/index.htm > > ImageDisk may not be the answer either. > > A problem that crops up if you're trying to run TeleDisk under a Windows > command prompt. That messes with the timing. TD is intended for use > under real-mode DOS. That is, if you're in windows, shut down to a DOS > command prompt. Do NOT assume that the Windows command prompt out of > the GUI will do the job. Or just boot MS-DOS. > > There are certainly Linux programs that can also read RX50 floppies. > > If you want a brute-force read every sector on an RX50 program, I can > pass that on to see if it works better for you. It knows the format of > an RX50 disk, so doesn't have to guess. I use it myself (the author of > TeleDisk), though increasingly, I'm relying on MCU-based solutions to > handle floppies. > > I haven't touched TD since 1999, when we sold the rights to the program. > It blows my mind that it's in use 24 years after its last incarnation. > > --Chuck > >
