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Is there some DOS floppy utility that doesn't rely on DMA? (Developers)

posted by rr Homepage E-mail, Berlin, Germany, 29.03.2024, 13:57

> 2mgui19.zip contains only single file 2MGUI.EXE
> Well I found 765DEBUG.EXE and also tried ImageDisk 1.2. It can properly
> detect disk RPM: 300 and it can seek the heads over disk but any attempt to
> read/write/format cause "Overrun" error, what does it mean? As there are no
> source available I cannot be sure it's not trying use DMA.

ImageDisk 1.18 sources can be found at http://dunfield.classiccmp.org/img/ as imd118sc.zip. Source code for TESTFDC is included.

This should be enough for your purpose, because readme.txt reads:

1.19 = Updated contact information
       Fix to BIN2IMD which swapped side data in some cases.
1.20 = Fix Format to allow start sector 0

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