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Sherlock Consulting Limited OmniFlop Floppy Disk Driver & OmniFlop Wizard User

Sherlock Consulting Limited OmniFlop Floppy Disk Driver & OmniFlop Wizard User Guide Document Type User Guide - Uncontrolled Document Version 3.0b Document Reference User Guide.doc Date 12 January 2012 Author Jason Watton Status Release Total Number of Pages 66 2012 Sherlock Consulting Limited No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopied, recorded or otherwise) or stored in any retrieval system of any nature without the express written permission of Sherlock Consulting Limited. User Guide Release Version 3.0b Sherlock Consulting Limited Page 2 OmniFlop Floppy Disk Driver & OmniFlop Wizard Contents 1. Introduction 4 1.1 Product Overview 4 1.2 Purpose 4 1.3 Scope 4 1.4 Readership 4 1.5 References 4 1.6 Acknowledgements 4 1.7 Glossary 5 1.8 History 5 1.9 Disclaimer of Warranty 13 2. Installation 14 2.1 System Requirements 14 2.1.1 External (USB) Floppy Drives 14 2.1.2 Disk Drive Calibration & Compatibility 14 2.2 Components 15 2.3 Installation 15 2.3.1 Driver 15 2.3.1.1 Windows 2000 16 2.3.1.2 Windows XP 23 2.3.1.3 Windows Vista 31 2.3.1.4 Windows 7 Ultimate 36 2.3.2 Application 41 2.4 Removal 41 2.4.1 Driver 41 2.4.1.1 Windows 2000 41 2.4.1.2 Windows XP 41 2.4.1.3 Windows Vista 41 2.4.1.4 Windows 7 Ultimate 42 2.4.2 Application 42 2.5 Registration and Licensing 42 2.5.1 Justification 42 2.5.2 Licensing Strategy 42 2.5.3 Getting a License 43 3. User Guide 44 3.1 Supported Formats & Discoverers 44 3.2 Formatting Disks 52 3.3 Running OmniFlop 52 3.4 Welcome Page 53 3.5 Function Selection 53 4. Support 54 4.1 Things to Check 54 4.1.1 Hardware 54 4.1.2 Single Density Support 54 4.1.3 Software 54 4.2 The Ideal Test Environment 55 4.3 The driver "does not contain any information about your hardware" 55 4.4 The media in the drive cannot be read 55 4.5 It won't work with my [external USB] floppy disk drive 56 4.6 How do I install a 5¼" [internal] floppy disk drive? 56 4.7 How do I install a 3½" [internal] floppy disk drive? 56 4.8 How do use a 3" [single-sided] floppy disk drive? 56 4.9 Nothing was found 56 User Guide Release Version 3.0b Sherlock Consulting Limited Page 3 OmniFlop Floppy Disk Driver & OmniFlop Wizard 4.10 The formatting works and it works in my old equipment but OmniFlop cannot read it 57 5. Using OmniFlop With Your Software 58 5.1 List The Formats You Need To Use 58 5.2 Contact The Author 58 5.3 Install The New Driver 59 5.4 Enable The Formats 59 5.5 Access The Floppy Disk 60 5.5.1 Disk Order 60 5.5.2 Ensoniq SQ80 Format 61 5.5.3 Slogger DDCPM Format 61 5.5.4 Computer Automation LSI-2 Format 61 5.5.5 FLEX Double-Density Formats 61 5.6 Close all Access to the Floppy Disk 61 5.7 Disable The Formats 61 5.8 Formatting a Disk 61 5.9 Locking The Media Type 62 5.10 Unlocking The Media Type 63 5.11 Disabling/Enabling Read/Write Access 63 5.12 Opening For Formatting 64 5.13 Closing The Format 65 5.14 Formatting Tracks 65 User Guide Release Version 3.0b Sherlock Consulting Limited Page 4 OmniFlop Floppy Disk Driver & OmniFlop Wizard 1. Introduction 1.1 Product Overview OmniFlop is a utility suite for accessing non-standard floppy disk formats in a standard PC. This is useful for archiving and resurrecting ancient data formats and floppy disks. 1.2 Purpose This document is the User Guide for the OmniFlop utility suite. 1.3 Scope This guide covers installation of the OmniFlop floppy disk driver and use of the OmniFlop Wizard application. 1.4 Readership This document is targeted at any person involved in using the OmniFlop utility. 1.5 References Ref Title Author 1.6 Acknowledgements This document is a first edition. The product and this document owe credit to: Jason Watton for authorship. Chris Richardson (http://www.8bs.com) for testing, encouragement, and support. Jonathan Graham Harston for extensive and unique information about alien disk formats. The Stairway To Hell website (http://www.stairwaytohell.com). alchresearch on The Stairway To Hell forum, and at http://www.alchemistresearch.com Robert Schmidt and "The BBC Lives!" (http://bbc.nvg.org). The BBC Micro community via the BBC Micro Mailing List. Peter Edwards for offering me a beer. Paulo Gomes for telling me about compatibility with Shima Seiki sewing machines. Tim Felgate, Darren Atkinson, and Markus Dimdal for reporting the vital format statistics. Garth Hjelte for incredible patience dealing with DD Ensoniq disks. Paolo Bagnaresi for extensive TI-99/4A testing, development, and the screen shots of Vista and Windows 7 Ultiimate. Martyn Lovell for testing and manifest advice for Vista and Windows 7. Christof Kauer of ipcas GmbH for feeding me formats and feedback for their USB Floppy Emulator (http://www.ipcas.com/products/usb-floppy-emulator-fdd-to-udd.html), and providing me with a prototype. Others who have tried, tested, and used previous versions of OmniDisk and OmniFlop. Those rightly disgruntled by being missed off this list - tell me (I'm sorry). All of the above have the right to be identified where appropriate as authors of their respective works. User Guide Release Version 3.0b Sherlock Consulting Limited Page 5 OmniFlop Floppy Disk Driver & OmniFlop Wizard 1.7 Glossary Definitions in the text are shown italicized and bold. Use of terms recently defined elsewhere or a direct quote from elsewhere in the text are shown italicized. Bold and underlining are used for emphasis. API Application Programmer's Interface, a set of functions and declarations which provide the programmer of an application to use an object. BIT Built-In Test Hex Hexadecimal Rx Receiver/Reception Tx Transmitter/Transmission C Micro-controller. P Microprocessor. USB Universal Serial Bus - an electrical and signaling standard plus protocol for device communications. 1.8 History The following versions of OmniFlop have been released: Date Details 31st Dec 2004 v0.01 Beta Release: Supports: • 5¼" 360kB drive: Standard DOS formats only • 3½" 720kB drive: Standard DOS formats only • 5¼" 1.2MB drive: Extended formats (see below) • 3½" 1.44MB drive: Extended formats (see below) • 3½" 2.88MB drive: Standard DOS formats only • Standard x86 system architecture: Extended formats (see below) • NEC 98 system architecture: DOS formats only • 5¼" 360kB drive: DOS 160kB • 5¼" 360kB drive: DOS 180kB • 5¼" 360kB drive: DOS 320kB • 5¼" 360kB drive: DOS 320kB x1024 • 5¼" 360kB drive: DOS 360kB • 3½" 720kB drive: DOS 720kB • 5¼" 1.2MB drive: DOS 160kB • 5¼" 1.2MB drive: DOS 180kB • 5¼" 1.2MB drive: DOS 320kB • 5¼" 1.2MB drive: DOS 320kB x1024 • 5¼" 1.2MB drive: DOS 360kB • 5¼" 1.2MB drive: DOS 720kB • 5¼" 1.2MB drive: DOS 1.2MB • 5¼" 1.2MB drive: (Extended) BBC DFS 40 (100kB/200kB) [Chris Richardson] • 5¼" 1.2MB drive: (Extended) BBC DFS 80 (200kB/400kB) [Chris Richardson] • 5¼" 1.2MB drive: (Extended) BBC DDOS 360kB (1-side) [Chris Richardson] • 5¼" 1.2MB drive: (Extended) BBC DDOS 720kB [Chris Richardson] • 3½" 1.44MB drive: (Extended) BBC DFS 40 (100kB/200kB) [Chris Richardson] • 3½" 1.44MB drive: (Extended) BBC DFS 80 (200kB/400kB) [Chris Richardson] • 3½" 1.44MB drive: (Extended) BBC DDOS 360kB (1-side) [Chris Richardson] • 3½" 1.44MB drive: (Extended) BBC DDOS 720kB [Chris Richardson] • 3½" 1.44MB drive: DOS 720kB • 3½" 1.44MB drive: DOS 1.44MB • 3½" 2.88MB drive: DOS 720kB • 3½" 2.88MB drive: DOS 1.44MB • 3½" 2.88MB drive: DOS 2.88MB User Guide Release Version 3.0b Sherlock Consulting Limited Page 6 OmniFlop Floppy Disk Driver & OmniFlop Wizard 2nd Jan 2005 v0.02: • Extended formats disabled by default 2nd Jan 2005 v0.03 Beta Release: • Simple Analysis (Test) support added for all drive types. • Enhanced error reporting in Wizard. 11th Jan 2005 v0.04 Beta Release: • Enhanced Analysis algorithm - changed to distinguish between formats and sub-formats (e.g. 720kB/640kB) and check tracking. • Analysis support for NEC98 x86 system architecture (all drive types). • All drive types: Custom format added for readable unrecognised formats. • Read/Write of custom (unrecognized) formats added. • 'Test' function tries to match format & advises of type of read/write to use. • Format option added but not implemented. • Pre-defined formats extended - now covers: • (Extended) BBC DFS 40 (100kB single sided/200kB double sided) • DOS 160kB • DOS 180kB • (Extended) BBC DFS 80 (200kB single sided/400kB double sided) • DOS 320kB • DOS 320kB (1024 bytes/sector) • (Extended) BBC DDOS 360kB (single sided) • DOS 360kB • (Extended) BBC ADFS L 640kB • (Extended) CP/M-80 / PDOS 640kB • (Extended) BBC DDOS 720kB • Spectrum +3 CP/M 720kB • Atari ST DSDD 720kB • Amstrad CP/M 720kB • DOS 720kB • (Extended) BBC ADFS D, D+, E, E+ 800kB [Chris Richardson] • (Extended) Spectrum Miles Gordon Tech +D/Disciple 800kB [Andy J.Davis, Thomas Heck] • (Extended) DOS 800kB • DOS 1.2MB • (Extended) BBC ADFS F, F+ 1600kB [Chris Richardson] • DOS 1.44MB • DOS 2.88MB • User Guide updated to include Windows 2000 installation. 12th Feb 2005 v1.00 Release: • Format option implemented for all pre-defined formats. • Pre-defined formats amended for GPL (format) and GSL (read/write). • Licensing added (levels All, Format, BBC, Other, Custom). • User selections stored between runs for use as default. • Added to pre-defined formats: • (Extended) BBC ADFS uploads/Litterature/ user-guide 67 .pdf