Mtools on 3.5 drive
Todd Day
todd at ivucsb.sba.ca.us
Thu Jul 20 12:51:32 AEST 1989
I would like to modify the latest release of Mtools so it
will work with 3.5" MS-DOS disks. The relevant changes
have to be made to init.c, but I do not know what the
FAT types are for 3.5 disks. When I tried to read a 3.5
disk, I get:
Unknown format 'f9'
mdir: Cannot initialize diskette
Now, I've looked in init.c and it seems like it would be
easy to change if I knew what all the relevant parameters
were for MS-DOS 3.5" disks.
case 0xfd: /* 40 trk, 9 sect, 2 sides */
dir_start = 5;
dir_len = 7;
clus_size = 2;
fat_len = 2;
num_clus = 354;
gdbuf.params.heads = 2;
gdbuf.params.psectrk = 9;
gdbuf.params.pseccyl = 18;
break;
I suspect that for 80 tracks, all I would have to do is change
num_clus, but I really have no idea. Anyone?
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