dskid - Man Page
identify floppy or disc image file for emulated machines
Synopsis
dskid [-format FORMAT] [-type TYPE] [-side SIDE] [-comp COMP] [-retry COUNT] DISKIMAGE [DSKIMAGE...]
Description
Dskid is a utility which will identify how a disc (or image) is formatted. It reports the required driver and various information about the disc geometry.
Options
- -type TYPE
Determines which driver is to be used.
- auto
Select according to the disc image file. This is the default.
- dsk
Use the DSK (CPCEmu format) image driver.
- edsk
Use the extended version of the DSK format.
- floppy
Use the floppy driver.
- myz80
Use the hard disk (MYZ80 format) image driver. (This format cannot be autodetected.)
- cfi
Use the CFI (DOS fdcopy format) image driver. (This format cannot be autodetected.)
- raw
Use the raw driver.
- -retry COUNT
Set the number of times to attempt to read the disc in case of error.
- -comp COMP
Select the compression method used on the source disc image file (has no effect when reading a floppy disc).
- auto
Detect from the first few bytes of the file. This is the default.
- sq
Huffman coded (SQ / USQ).
- gz
Gzipped (gzip / gunzip).
- bz2
Burrows-Wheeler compressed (bzip2 / bunzip2).
- -side SIDE
Determines which side (0 or 1) of the disc (image) is to be identified.
Author
John Elliott <seasip.webmaster@gmail.com>.
Darren Salt wrote the man pages.