#1 Drive identity

[MWR]

rawrite restricts writing to A: or B: drives.

Has this NTRawrite software been implemented in a
similar 90's way ?

(My flakey floppy drive has been supplemented by a
donated Maxell Superdrive which is effectively an
external floppy so I can produce for freestanding PCs
- also, maybe there are USB connected floppy cases
that would be much the same, but I've not tried that
{though I chuckled in admiration at this non-Windows
implementation
http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm !}.

On my system, the usable floppy for writing is thus my
M drive and Windows won't let this be set to drive A or
B)

[Blake Ramsdell]

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There shouldn't be anything that limits the drive -- it doesn't have to be A or
B -- it can be M and that should work fine. In general it just copies the
source bits to the destination device, so it should work independent of the
capacity of the drive. I've heard that some people are using it with USB
fobs, so not sure what the problem is. Any more details about the problem
you are seeing? Is there an error message?

Yes, I know, it's been a year since you asked your question. Maybe it
fixed itself now ;).

[MWR]

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Can't quickly recreate the error message and don't have the
rawrite program /image available now. However, I recall the
severe frustration with the A/B drive restriction I found with
rawrite. I don't recall ever trying NTRawrite as I was trying to
work on a non-NT/XP system.

Recollection a little vague as to why I needed to write an
image file to floppy - presumably some special boot floppy
image I downloaded from the net. It looks like I failed to make
it clear that I was trying the rawrite DOS program under
Windows ME and was unable to complete this so (IIRC) was
looking round for a similar program - as it turns out an NT/XP
version like NTRawrite.
I recall contacting someone that was associated with the
DOS rawrite and we mutually agreed that there was no way
round this in a DOS-like environment because of the
programmatic interfaces available (radically different for floppy
and other hard or external USB drives) to write to floppy drive
A/B.
I think I also replaced my A:floppy drive!

Anyway, if you have tested NTRawrite with a USB drive that
answers my original question as the programmatic interface
restriction clearly doesn't apply with your NT revised program.

I've been trying to refresh my memory using
http://www.fdos.org/ripcord/rawrite/ and have searched disk
and old mail contents but can't add more to the above or
recall what file it was to try and test with rawrite - I guess I
need to download a floppy image or figure out how to create a
floppy image first.

thanks anyway, Mark