Name

       xdfcopy - copy and format XDF disks in Linux

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Description

          xdfcopy [-format-id] [-d] [-n] [-h head-skew] [-t cylinder-skew] [-T
          end-cylinder] [source] target

       Xdfcopy is a utility to copy and format XDF disks. XDF (eXtended Density Format) is a format used by OS/2
       which can hold 1840KB of data (on a 3 1/2 high density disk). Its advantage over 2m formats is that it is
       faster:  38KB/s.  Because  of  this fast speed, I extended the XDF standard to higher capacities (1992KB)
       with a transfer rate of 45KB/s. I called the new formats XXDF.

       This program works best with kernels newer than 2.0.0.

       If both source and target are given, xdfcopy copies the disk image from file  to  floppy  disk  or  vice-
       versa. When copying to a floppy disk, the disk is first formatted, unless the -n option is given.

       If no source is given, the target is only formatted. In this case, the target must be a floppy drive.

Options

   Selecting a format
       Formats are selected by the format_id. The following formats are understood:

       0      Formats a 5 1/4 XDF disk (1520 KB, 45.6 KB/s).

       1      Formats a 3 1/2 high density XDF disk (1840 KB, 38.3 KB/s).

       2      Formats a 3 1/2 extra density XDF disk (3680 KB, 102 KB/s)

       3      Formats a 3 1/2 high density XXDF disk (1920 KB, 45 KB/s)

       4      Formats a 3 1/2 extra density XXDF disk (3840 KB, 90 KB/s)

Misc options

       -D dosdrive
              Describes  the  DOS  drive  letter  for  mformat. If this option is given, an MS-DOS filesystem is
              automatically installed on the disk after the low-level format is complete. In order for  this  to
              work,  the  drive  has to be configured to accept the 23x2x80 geometry in your /etc/mtools or your
              ~/.mtoolsrc file. Moreover, this only works with a version of mtools that is more recent than 3.0.

              Example of a working mtoolsrc line:

                 A /dev/fd0  0  0 0  0

              Examples of a non-working mtoolsrc line:

                 A /dev/fd0 12 80 2 18

       -n     Don't format the disk before copying the disk image to the disk.

Options for power users

       -t cylinder skew
              Uses a different track skew than the  default  (14).  For  more  details  on  skews,  see  section
              superformat. In this version of xdfcopy, the -t parameter is ignored.

       -h head skew
              Uses a different head skew than the default (0) In this version, this parameter is ignored

       -d     Debugging. For each read or write operation, the time it took to complete the operation is printed
              (in milliseconds). This can be used to optimize the skews.

       -T end-cylinders
              Tells how many cylinders to format.  With the XXDF formats, it is actually possible to  format  up
              to 83 cylinders, yielding a format of up to 1992KB on a 3 1/2 high density disk.

See Also

       Fdutils' texinfo doc