Xroar and .dsk images - bye bye header?
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2016 2:41 pm
Hi all,
I've been doing quite a lot of switching between using Xroar with the inbuilt disk emulation and with drivewire and have noticed something a bit odd.
In order to use VDK images in Drivewire, I've been butchering the headers down to 8 bytes or so and making DSK versions, in line with the info in the 'Preservation' wiki page.
However, if I then use the DSK version in Xroar, and enable writeback, then the header gets removed and a headerless DSK file (effectively a raw disk image) is produced.
Anyone see this as a problem? With the Os9 tinkering I'm doing at the moment I often leave disks open in both DW and Xroar native (I know, lazy) and I wonder if it could result in unexpected corruption?
Would it be worth making the Xroar DSK writeback preserve the header segment where one exists?
Cheers,
Mike
I've been doing quite a lot of switching between using Xroar with the inbuilt disk emulation and with drivewire and have noticed something a bit odd.
In order to use VDK images in Drivewire, I've been butchering the headers down to 8 bytes or so and making DSK versions, in line with the info in the 'Preservation' wiki page.
However, if I then use the DSK version in Xroar, and enable writeback, then the header gets removed and a headerless DSK file (effectively a raw disk image) is produced.
Anyone see this as a problem? With the Os9 tinkering I'm doing at the moment I often leave disks open in both DW and Xroar native (I know, lazy) and I wonder if it could result in unexpected corruption?
Would it be worth making the Xroar DSK writeback preserve the header segment where one exists?
Cheers,
Mike