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