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SAMdisk 3.8.10

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May 232017

SAMdisk 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, a low-level floppy disk driver, installed on your system.

You can download the latest version from the SAMdisk website.

Version 3.8.10 (2017-05-14)

added read and write support .qdos (QL) disk images
added –irregular option for blind output image if first track isn’t regular
added –fill to set filler byte for regular formats
fixed setting perpendicular mode for 1Mbps data rate
fixed reading directly to single-sided formats from a:/b:
fixed short data indicator showing on no-data sectors
fixed raw output not using source format fill byte for missing sectors
changed raw output to allow blank head 1 to mirror head 0 format

SAMDisk 3.8.9

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Dec 312016

SAMdisk 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, a low-level floppy disk driver, installed on your system.

You can download the latest version from the SAMdisk website.

Version 3.8.9 (2016-12-18):

fixed clipping extent of non-error sectors
fixed raw .2d file reading (thanks Tatsuyuki Sato)
fixed HD track error during 2DD to 2HD promotion (thanks Tatsuyuki Sato)
fixed use of scanning data rates not supported by FDC
fixed –offsets crash if 2 stored copies were present
changed gap indicator from g to +, added – for short sectors
added support for double-density MB-02+ disks (thanks Jan Kucera)
added –step-rate speed option (0=slow, 15=fast, 10=default)

SAMDisk v3.8 / v3.8.1

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Mar 162014

SAMdisk 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, a low-level floppy disk driver, installed on your system.

You can download the latest version from the SAMdisk website.

Changes Version 3.8.1 (2014-03-11):

Fixed data extent bug reading from stream images (SCP/RAW/DFI)
SBT images now auto-execute under SAM DOS, even if not natively bootable

Changes Version 3.8 (2014-03-09):

Added support for SuperCard Pro .scp flux disk images (MFM+FM)
Added –pll option to control PLL method with flux image scanning
Fixed –head giving ambiguous option error due to typo
Fixed KBI-19 format slightly overhanging track wrap
Improved EOT handling of flux images containing just one revolution
Changed –slow-step to –old-drive to better match usage

SAMDisk v3.7

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Jul 062013

SAMdisk 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, a low-level floppy disk driver, installed on your system.

You can download the latest version from the SAMdisk website.

Changes:

Added support for KryoFlux and DiscFerret stream images (MFM+FM)
Added preliminary support for D4M (FD-4000) disk images
Added hex output with –hex or -x, with limited hex using –hex-ish
Added –no-gap4b to ignore gap data after the final sector
Added –abs-offsets to show absolute rather than relative sector offsets
Fixed ‘extra byte’ EDSK extension being used unnecessarily on CRC errors
Fixed crash during CPC weak sector sniffing due to no-data 4th sector
Fixed regular image reading reporting transient disk errors
Improved support for ED images, including 2.88M raw images
Improved gap reading support for IPF images
Changed raw track parsing to ignore headers with ID CRC errors
Changed raw image writing to use only first cyl to determine format
Relaxed D2M sniffing by removing system partition type (0xff) check
Reduced gap sync requirement to remove more unwanted gaps

SAMDisk v3.4

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Aug 202012

SAMdisk 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, a low-level floppy disk driver, installed on your system.

You can download the latest version from the SAMdisk website.

Changes:

Added create command for blank HDD and floppy images
Added basic IDEDOS partition listing
Added checking of good sectors to track repairing
Added support for Velesoft DSK/DS2 transfer images
Added –chrn to trust ID header over physical location
Added –no-1m to skip 1Mbps data rate scanning
Restored –byte-swap for Atom/AtomLite conversion
Improved ATA identify data handling
Improved scan output to report warnings above affected track
Fixed recognition of DSC/HDR, CFI, LIF disk images
Fixed floppy image conversion to .raw dump
Fixed repaired sectors retaining original track offset
Fixed detection of oversized tracks with just 1 sector
Fixed HDD firmware string missing final character
Fixed log file including empty status messages
Fixed AL+ boot sector being mistaken for MBR
Reverted to Visual Studio 2005 for old CPU compatibility