Re: [opencbm-user] How-to Rip a CP/M-formatted 1581 Disk to a .D81 Image (???)

[Myke C. <su...@my...>]

This is really odd.

I have *six* .d81 images of CP/M-formatted 3.5" disks with datestamps 
from July 13th/14th - just 8 days ago.

One of them is an intentionally blank CP/M .d81 for the purpose of 
easily creating a fresh work disk by simply copying and renaming the image.

When I write that image to a physical floppy, there's no issue.

When I attempt to immediately read that very same physical floppy, I get 
an immediate "[Fatal]" error message before the drive has even attempted 
to read the disk.

Here is the command line I'm running in Linux which gives me this error:

imgcopy -v --no-warp -t -s -2 -d 1581 8 test.d81

Now, I will admit... at times I have been working with "Big Blue Reader 
128" when copying some CP/M files from disk-to-disk.

Perhaps I created a blank, standard .d81... and formatted it for CP/M in 
VICE... and then copied the files to those .d81s from .d71 images using 
either PIP.COM or BBR-128 and I just don't remember that's how I did it?

I don't remember doing that.  Regardless, I'm not having any success 
with imaging a physical 1581 floppy formatted for CP/M on my real 
C128... yet the same command line works perfectly with all my standard 
CBM-formatted 1581 disks.

Hmmmm...  I'll keep experimenting with it until hopefully I find 
something which works.

Myke