xdfcopy(1)						      General Commands Manual							xdfcopy(1)

Name
       xdfcopy - copy and format XDF disks in Linux

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Description
	  xdfcopy [-format-id] [-d] [-n] [-h head-skew] [-t cylinder-skew] [-T
	  end-cylinder] [source] target

       Xdfcopy is a utility to copy and format XDF disks. XDF (eXtended Density Format) is a format used by OS/2 which can hold 1840KB of data (on
       a 3 1/2 high density disk). Its advantage over 2m formats is that it is faster: 38KB/s. Because of this fast  speed,  I	extended  the  XDF
       standard to higher capacities (1992KB) with a transfer rate of 45KB/s. I called the new formats XXDF.

       This program works best with kernels newer than 2.0.0.

       If  both  source and target are given, xdfcopy copies the disk image from file to floppy disk or vice-versa. When copying to a floppy disk,
       the disk is first formatted, unless the -n option is given.

       If no source is given, the target is only formatted. In this case, the target must be a floppy drive.

Options
   Selecting a format
       Formats are selected by the format_id. The following formats are understood:

       0      Formats a 5 1/4 XDF disk (1520 KB, 45.6 KB/s).

       1      Formats a 3 1/2 high density XDF disk (1840 KB, 38.3 KB/s).

       2      Formats a 3 1/2 extra density XDF disk (3680 KB, 102 KB/s)

       3      Formats a 3 1/2 high density XXDF disk (1920 KB, 45 KB/s)

       4      Formats a 3 1/2 extra density XXDF disk (3840 KB, 90 KB/s)

Misc options
       -D dosdrive
	      Describes the DOS drive letter for mformat. If this option is given, an MS-DOS filesystem is automatically  installed  on  the  disk
	      after  the low-level format is complete. In order for this to work, the drive has to be configured to accept the 23x2x80 geometry in
	      your /etc/mtools or your ~/.mtoolsrc file. Moreover, this only works with a version of mtools that is more recent than 3.0.

	      Example of a working mtoolsrc line:

		 A /dev/fd0  0	0 0  0

	      Examples of a non-working mtoolsrc line:

		 A /dev/fd0 12 80 2 18

       -n     Don't format the disk before copying the disk image to the disk.

Options for power users
       -t cylinder skew
	      Uses a different track skew than the default (14). For more details on skews, see section  superformat. In this version of  xdfcopy,
	      the -t parameter is ignored.

       -h head skew
	      Uses a different head skew than the default (0) In this version, this parameter is ignored

       -d     Debugging.  For  each  read or write operation, the time it took to complete the operation is printed (in milliseconds). This can be
	      used to optimize the skews.

       -T end-cylinders
	      Tells how many cylinders to format.  With the XXDF formats, it is actually possible to format up to 83 cylinders, yielding a  format
	      of up to 1992KB on a 3 1/2 high density disk.

See Also
       Fdutils' texinfo doc

fdutils-5.5							      03Mar05								xdfcopy(1)