flomod is a floppy disk image editor - it allows user to read or modify given sectors, tracks or bytes on floppy disk or its image.
It's relatively easy to use and can be pretty powerful tool when used along with other UNIX commands.
This is early development version created only as a proof of concept. The code is far from perfect, so you might stumble upon weird bugs.
- Add PPA to your system -
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mrjjot/mrjjot - Update software lists -
sudo apt-get update - Install
flomodpackage -sudo apt-get install flomod
flomod [OPTIONS] diskfile.bin
Supported command line options:
-1/--baseone- Sector numbers begin with 1 (like in BIOS interrupt 13h)-s/--start- Specify start point of read/write operation in C:H:S:B format-e/--end- Specify end point of read/write operation in C:H:S:B format (overrides-nflag)-n/--num- Specify length of read/write operation in C:H:S:B format-g/--geom- Manually define disk geometry-t/--type- Specify disk geometry preset-d/--dump- Display written/read data along with its addresses in hex format-v/--verbose- Be more verbose about what's going on-w/--write- Write data fromstdinto the image file-r/--read- Read data from the image file
Disk geometry presets include:
FLOPPY_3.5_740K- 3.5 inch floppy, 740KB (equivalent of 80:2:9:512)FLOPPY_3.5_1.44M- 3.5 inch floppy, 1.44MB (equivalent of 80:2:18:512)FLOPPY_3.5_2.88M- 3.5 inch floppy, 2.88MB (equivalent of 80:2:36:512)FLOPPY_5.25_360K- 5.25 inch floppy, 360KB (equivalent of 80:2:15:512)FLOPPY_5.25_1.2M- 5.25 inch floppy, 1.2MB (equivalent of 40:2:9:512)
For example, if you want to read sector 3 from track 7 (side 2), you can use following command:flomod -s 7:1:3:0 -n 0:0:1:0 floppy.bin.
- Clone git repository -
git clone https://github.com/Jacajack/flomod.git && cd flomod - Invoke makefile -
make all - To install use
sudo make install, and to uninstall -sudo make uninstall.