SAMDisk v3.3 (http://www.octoate.de/wp/2012/06/16/samdisk-v3-3/)
16 June 2012, 5:00 pmSAMdisk is a tool to convert floppy disks into various disk images which can be used in emulators. It works with almost all PC floppy controllers and supports also some copy-protected formats. It requires that you have fdrawcmd.sys (http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd/), a low-level floppy disk driver, installed on your system.
You can download the latest version from the SAMdisk website (http://simonowen.com/samdisk/).
Changes:- Added built-in support for zipped and gzipped files
- Added support for repairing 8K sectors with bad CRCs
- Added support for raw hard disk images
- Added identify device data reading, where available (non-USB)
- Added –hdf to force HDF version (10 or 11), with v1.1 now the default
- Added –no-identify to ignore source identify data
- Added –no-cfa to suppress CFA festures in generated identify data
- Enhanced identify to include CHS/LBA28/LBA48 sector counts and CFA
- Enhanced verbose disk list to show serial+firmware and MBR partitions
- Changed disk list to show all devices by default, not just BDOS
- Fixed repairing to blank target tracks, with new density check
- Fixed HDD access beyond 4GB boundary, extended -s range to 2TB
- Fixed SAD image writing with custom sector sizes
- Fixed status messages being written to log and not erased correctly
- Improved FDC integrity checks during sector reads, for suspect hardware
- Improved total sector count to CHS mapping
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