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Sherlock
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OmniFlop Floppy Disk Driver & Wizard
User Guide
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Document Type |
User Guide - Uncontrolled |
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Document
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2.01p |
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Document
Reference |
User Guide.doc |
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Date |
09 May 2008 |
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Author |
Jason Watton |
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Release |
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Total Number of
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47 |
2008 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.
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 4
1.8 History 5
1.9 Disclaimer of Warranty 9
2. Installation 11
2.1 System Requirements 11
2.1.1 External (USB) Floppy Drives 11
2.1.2 Disk Drive Calibration &
Compatibility 11
2.2 Components 12
2.3 Installation 12
2.3.1 Driver 12
2.3.1.1 Windows
2000 12
2.3.1.2 Windows
XP 19
2.3.2 Application 27
2.4 Removal 27
2.4.1 Driver 27
2.4.1.1 Windows
2000 27
2.4.1.2 Windows
XP 27
2.4.2 Application 27
2.5 Registration and Licensing 27
2.5.1 Justification 27
2.5.2 Licensing Strategy 28
2.5.3 Getting a License 28
3. User Guide 29
3.1 Supported Formats & Discoverers 29
3.2 Formatting Disks 34
3.3 Running OmniFlop 34
3.4 Welcome Page 34
3.5 Function Selection 35
4. Support 36
4.1 Things to Check 36
4.1.1 Hardware 36
4.1.2 Single Density Support 36
4.1.3 Software 36
4.2 The Ideal Test Environment 37
4.3 The driver "does not contain
any information about your hardware" 37
4.4 The media in the drive cannot be
read 37
4.5 It won't work with my [external
USB] floppy disk drive 38
4.6 How do I install a 5¼" [internal] floppy disk
drive? 38
4.7 How do I install a 3½" [internal] floppy disk
drive? 38
4.8 How do use a 3" [single-sided]
floppy disk drive? 38
4.9 Nothing was found 38
4.10 The formatting works and it works in
my old equipment but OmniFlop cannot read it 39
5. Using OmniFlop With Your Software 40
5.1 List The Formats You Need To Use 40
5.2 Contact The Author 40
5.3 Install The New Driver 40
5.4 Enable The Formats 41
5.5 Access The Floppy Disk 42
5.5.1 Disk Order 42
5.6 Close all Access to the Floppy Disk 43
5.7 Disable The Formats 43
5.8 Formatting a Disk 43
5.9 Locking The Media Type 43
5.10 Unlocking The Media Type 44
5.11 Disabling/Enabling Read/Write Access 45
5.12 Opening For Formatting 45
5.13 Closing The Format 46
5.14 Formatting Tracks 47
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.
This document is the User Guide for the OmniFlop utility suite.
This guide covers installation of the OmniFlop floppy disk driver and use of the OmniFlop Wizard application.
This document is targeted at any person involved in using the OmniFlop utility.
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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 (or was it Sam?).
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.
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.
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.
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