01-14-2015, 11:18 AM
The 5¼-inch disk I wish to make an image of suitable for use in emulation is a Powerstyx 100% demo disk backup. I'm not sure that it is copy protected, but the backup was made originally from a 3½-inch disk using NibbleCopy, and subsequently the demo was run from the backup disk and this was verified as a good copy.
The original 3½-inch disk has now been lost and the owner of the backup disk has no working 5¼-inch disk drive with which to read it. Eventually it was passed to me, but I have failed to make an image of it using my Catweasel card, so I'm assuming it has one or more long tracks on it.
Because I can create no image of this disk using SCP (I'm not convinced the disk is being read properly, even when dumping to a flux (.scp) image), I will make one last attempt to get satisfactory reading performance with the SCP by copying this disk to another 5¼-inch DD disk, and then I will tackle the job using the Amiga's Powercopy utility. I can then generate either a 3½-inch disk or an extended ADF for use in WinUAE from the resulting trackfiles.
I was attempting to use my SCP board for this job only because I had thought it would be more straightforward than using Powercopy, and one day soon perhaps it will be.
Thanks for all your help getting my SCP board up and running.
The original 3½-inch disk has now been lost and the owner of the backup disk has no working 5¼-inch disk drive with which to read it. Eventually it was passed to me, but I have failed to make an image of it using my Catweasel card, so I'm assuming it has one or more long tracks on it.
Because I can create no image of this disk using SCP (I'm not convinced the disk is being read properly, even when dumping to a flux (.scp) image), I will make one last attempt to get satisfactory reading performance with the SCP by copying this disk to another 5¼-inch DD disk, and then I will tackle the job using the Amiga's Powercopy utility. I can then generate either a 3½-inch disk or an extended ADF for use in WinUAE from the resulting trackfiles.
I was attempting to use my SCP board for this job only because I had thought it would be more straightforward than using Powercopy, and one day soon perhaps it will be.
Thanks for all your help getting my SCP board up and running.