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2 !!!xdfcopy
3 Name
4 Note
5 Description
6 Options
7 Misc options
8 Options for power users
9 See Also
10 ----
11 !!Name
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14 xdfcopy - Program to copy and format Xdf disks in Linux
15 !!Note
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18 This manpage has been automatically generated from fdutils's
19 texinfo documentation. However, this process is only
20 approximative, and some items, such as crossreferences,
21 footnotes and indices are lost in this translation process.
22 Indeed, these items have no appropriate representation in
23 the manpage format. Moreover, only the items specific to
24 each command have been translated, and the general
25 information about fdutils has been dropped in the manpage
26 version. Thus I strongly advise you to use the original
27 texinfo doc.
28
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30 *
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33 To generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the
34 following commands:
35
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37 __ ./configure; make dvi; dvips fdutils.dvi
38 __
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41 *
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44 To generate a html copy, run:
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47 __ ./configure; make html
48 __A premade html can be found at: `http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/fdutils'
49
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51 *
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54 To generate an info copy (browsable using emacs' info mode),
55 run:
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58 __ ./configure; make info
59 __
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62 The texinfo doc looks most pretty when printed or as html.
63 Indeed, in the info version certain examples are difficult
64 to read due to the quoting conventions used in
65 info.
66 !!Description
67
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69 xdfcopy [[-''format-id''] [[-d] [[-n] [[-h ''head-skew''] [[-t ''cylinder-skew''
70
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72 ] [[-T
73 ''end-cylinder''] [[''source''] ''target''
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76 Xdfcopy is a utility to copy and format XDF disks.
77 XDF (eXtended Density Format) is a format used by OS/2 which
78 can hold 1840KB of data (on a 3 1/2 high density disk). Its
79 advantage over 2m formats is that it is faster: 38KB/s.
80 Because of this fast speed, I extended the XDF standard to
81 higher capacities (1992KB) with a transfer rate of 45KB/s. I
82 called the new formats XXDF.
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85 This program works best with kernels newer than
86 2.0.0.
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89 If both source and target are given, xdfcopy copies the disk
90 image from file to floppy disk or vice-versa. When copying
91 to a floppy disk, the disk is first formatted, unless the
92 -n option is given.
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95 If no source is given, the target is only formatted. In this
96 case, the target must be a floppy drive.
97 !!Options
98
99
100 __Selecting a format__
101
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103 Formats are selected by the format_id. The following formats
104 are understood:
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107 0
108
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110 Formats a 5 1/4 XDF disk (1520 KB, 45.6 KB/s).
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113 1
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116 Formats a 3 1/2 high density XDF disk (1840 KB, 38.3
117 KB/s).
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120 2
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123 Formats a 3 1/2 extra density XDF disk (3680 KB, 102
124 KB/s)
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127 3
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130 Formats a 3 1/2 high density XXDF disk (1920 KB, 45
131 KB/s)
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134 4
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137 Formats a 3 1/2 extra density XXDF disk (3840 KB, 90
138 KB/s)
139 !!Misc options
140
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142 -D ''dosdrive''
143
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145 Describes the DOS drive letter for mformat. If this option
146 is given, an MS-DOS filesystem is automatically installed on
147 the disk after the low-level format is complete. In order
148 for this to work, the drive has to be configured to accept
149 the 23x2x80 geometry in your /etc/mtools or your ~/.mtoolsrc
150 file. Moreover, this only works with a version of mtools
151 that is more recent than 3.0.
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154 Example of a working mtoolsrc line:
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157 __ A /dev/fd0 0 0 0 0
158 __
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161 Examples of a non-working mtoolsrc line:
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164 __ A /dev/fd0 12 80 2 18
165 __
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168 -n
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171 Don't format the disk before copying the disk image to the
172 disk.
173 !!Options for power users
174
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176 -t ''cylinder skew''
177
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179 Uses a different track skew than the default (14). For more
180 details on skews, see section superformat. In this version
181 of xdfcopy, the -t parameter is
182 ignored.
183
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185 -h ''head skew''
186
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188 Uses a different head skew than the default (0) In this
189 version, this parameter is ignored
190
191
192 -d
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195 Debugging. For each read or write operation, the time it
196 took to complete the operation is printed (in milliseconds).
197 This can be used to optimize the skews.
198
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200 -T ''end-cylinders''
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203 Tells how many cylinders to format. With the XXDF formats,
204 it is actually possible to format up to 83 cylinders,
205 yielding a format of up to 1992KB on a 3 1/2 high density
206 disk.
207 !!See Also
208
209
210 Fdutils' texinfo doc
211 ----
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