Archiving OS65D disks with flux-level analyzers

[lowrybt1]

I’ve been looking at hardware solutions for archiving old disks into image files with the ability to write the images back to fresh disks. There are a couple of solutions that create images by reading disks at the flux level: something called Kryoflux, another called Supercopy Pro. Does anyone know if these can be used effectively to image OS65D disks and write those images back to old media?

http://www.cbmstuff.com/proddetail.php?prod=scp

[RedskullDC]

Hi,

I have no experience of the Supercard Pro, but the Kryoflux should certainly be able to do it in raw stream mode.

More on the raw stream mode here:
http://www.kryoflux.com/download/kryofl ... rev1.1.pdf

You could write your own OSI disk format decoder, but that would be no easy task.
IMHO, the Kryoflux is complicated beyond belief to use for odd formats (and I have one).
It tries to be all things to all people.

Better to use something designed specifically to read/write OSI disks.
Either a 6821/6850 based device, or something in an FPGA.

Currently looking along these lines for something to go with the C4 FPGA project.
Should be relatively easy to interface with a "real" 5.25"/3.5" disk drive.

From there, the disk images can be saved to a PC via the serial interface.

Cheers,
Leslie