[ale] Reading old XDF formatted floppies

[jknapka at kneuro.net (JK)]

Is this the OS/2 eXtended Disk Format, or the Emulators Inc Xformer
Disk Format?

In either case, I'd start by dd-ing an image of the floppy to a local
file.  Then explore emulators or virtualized environments that understand
that disk format.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/atari-8-bit/faq/section-85.html

-- JK

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone here knows how to read an old XDF-formatted
> floppy disk---without an internal floppy disk attached to a standard
> floppy disk controller.  All I have available is a USB floppy drive.
> xdfcopy won't do it, and the floppy drive thinks that everything 
> 
> I pretty much think I'm screwed, but here's hoping...
> 
> 	--- Mike
>