adfread 1.1 - Amiga Disk Reader
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This utility will allow you to create ADF floppy disk images from regular
Amiga disks using standard PC hardware. It uses same method as Disk2FDI
but is compatible with Windows 2000 and newer.

Requirements
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- Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
- PC mainboard must have hardware support for 2 floppy drives
  Unfortunately most modern PC mainboards don't have B: drive motor
  and select signals connected. MB is compatible if you can configure
  both A: and B: drives in BIOS. (usually..)
- 2 non-USB floppy drives installed on the same cable
- Regular format Amiga disks without any copy-protection
- A normal PC-formatted 1.44M floppy

Instructions
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- Install fdrawcmd.sys from http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd/
- Insert your Amiga disk in A:
- Insert the PC-formatted disk in B:
- From a command prompt, run:  adfread.exe newimage.adf

The read process will take 2-3 minutes, during which the reading process will
be reported.  Retries are a normal part of the read process, but failure to
read after 9 attempts will cause the utility to move on anyway. You can retry
the operation as many times as you want, only failed sectors will be retried.

The resulting newimage.adf file is ready for use WinUAE!

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Changes from 1.0 to 1.1:

- Improved internal disk operations
- Adfread can be run multiple times and only damaged sectors are
  retried (uses <name of adf>.status file to store sector status
  information)
- Small fixes and updates

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Toni Wilen <twilen@winuae.net> and Simon Owen <simon@simonowen.com>
24 December 2006
