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To read and format disks with formats other than 720kB (the +3multiformatter utility refers to this as 708K) on Windows NT you will need the [https://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd// FDrawcmd driver by simon owen]. This will only work correctly on PCs with real floppy controllers. | To read and format disks with formats other than 720kB (the +3multiformatter utility refers to this as 708K) on Windows NT you will need the [https://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd// FDrawcmd driver by simon owen]. This will only work correctly on PCs with real floppy controllers. | ||
A good utility for writing the images is [https://www.seasip.info/Unix/LibDsk/#tools John Elliot's dsktool]. | A good utility for writing the images is [https://www.seasip.info/Unix/LibDsk/#tools John Elliot's dsktool]. | ||
It's possible to read and write 708K +3DOS format dsk images using dsktool on some USB floppy drives that have an | It's possible to read and write 708K +3DOS format dsk images using dsktool on some USB floppy drives that have an SMSC USB97CFDC2 chipset. The Dell FDDM-101 module is known to work. | ||
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