Conference giadev::decstation

7352.0. "Diskette Utility GRDUW No Workie?" by BSS::PROCTOR_R (Sniffing the floral arrangement) Wed Feb 12 1997 11:14

    I haven't seen anything around this so will ask:
    
    I recently decided to make DMF copies of my Win95 distribution (when
    one died -- still looking for somebody with Disk 4 BTW), and *tried* a
    program called "GRDUW", a shareware disk image maker I pulled from 
    www.shareware.com.
    
    On an old Tiger II,Win95, SP1, etc etc etc. I can read a 1.68MB DMF
    floppy, and create a diskette image (.DIM) file OK, but try to use the
    .DIM file to create another floppy? No chance. read errors, disk not
    ready or cannot be access errors, and other oddball errors using this
    utility.
    
    I tried to reset the floppy via BIOS to 2.88 thinking that this was the
    problem. nope. I tried oddball formats of the floppies (same utility),
    to no avail. The floppy goes into hyperdrive, and eventually I have to
    pop the floppy out to keep the thing from going completely berserk...
    
    has anybody tried this util? any luck?
    
    {hardware platform is old DECpc 4xxD2LP}
    

    If you are just trying to duplicate the disks, COPYQM works fine.  I
    picked it up at a SIMTEL site some time ago.
    
    Bob

    
    There might still be a program called floppy.exe or something like that
    on http://pcbu.ako.dec.com use bbs search.
    
    This was a program written for the DECpcLP (not x, v, etc) which was
    intercepted a floppy based bios call to provide support for wierd
    format floppies.