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Wed Aug 26 10:00:38 CDT 2009 Slackware 13.0 x86_64 is released as stable! Thanks to everyone who helped make this release possible -- see the RELEASE_NOTES for the credits. The ISOs are off to the replicator. This time it will be a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided 32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD. We're taking pre-orders now at store.slackware.com. Please consider picking up a copy to help support the project. Once again, thanks to the entire Slackware community for all the help testing and fixing things and offering suggestions during this development cycle. As always, have fun and enjoy! -P.
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RaWrite 1.2
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Purpose
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Write a disk image file to a 360K floppy disk.
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Equipment/Software Requirements
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PC/XT/AT with a floppy disk drive capable of reading and writing a 360K
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diskette.
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This program uses generic low-level BIOS diskette read/write functions. It
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should be portable to nearly every PC in existance. PS/2's should be able
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to run RawWrite but this has not been tested.
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CAVEAT
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This program will write ANY disk file to a floppy, overwriting any previous
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information that may have been present. If you wish to re-use a diskette
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under MS-DOS thats been written to by RawWrite then the disk will need to be
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reformatted; all MS-DOS specific information will have been erased.
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How to Compile
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TCC rawrite.c
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The source code is specific to Borland International's Turbo C 2.01 and has
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been tested in all memory models.
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Usage
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C> RAWRITE
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And follow the prompts. All arguments are case-insensitive.
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A sample run is shown below. The disk file being written, in this example,
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is named DEMODISK and the destination - where the image is being written -
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is the B: drive.
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This program may be aborted at any time by typing ^C.
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Sample Run
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C> RAWRITE
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RaWrite 1.2 - Write disk file to raw floppy diskette
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Enter source file name: DEMODISK
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Enter destination drive: B
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Please insert a formatted 360K diskette into drive B: and press -ENTER- :
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Writing image to drive B:
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Errors
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RaWrite attempts to determine if the diskette is a 360K, 720K, 1.2M, or
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1.44M diskette by reading specific sectors. If the inserted diskette is not
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one of the mentioned types, then RaWrite will abort with a short error
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message.
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Errors such as write protect, door open, bad disk, bad sector, etc. cause a
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program abort with a short error message.
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History
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1.0 - Initial release
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1.1 - Beta test (fixing bugs) 4/5/91
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Some BIOS's don't like full-track writes.
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1.101 - Last beta release. 4/8/91
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Fixed BIOS full-track write by only only
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writing 3 sectors at a time.
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1.2 - Final code and documentation clean-ups. 4/9/91
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