Name

atarixfer — transfer Atari disk images from/to an Atari disk drive

Synopsis

atarixfer [-f device] [options] -r | -w imagefile

Description

atarixfer can either write a disk image to a real Atari disk drive, or read a disk from an Atari drive and write its contents to a disk image. A 1050-2-PC or APE ProSystem cable is required.

atarixfer only supports whole-disk transfers, to or from a disk images. Reading/writing single files or individual sectors is not possible.

Options

-f device

Use alternative AtariSIO device (default: /dev/atarisio0).

-p

Use APE ProSystem cable (default: 1050-2-PC cable).

-d

Enable debugging output.

-e

Continue on read or write errors.

-s

Enable Happy Warp Speed and XF551 highspeed (2xSIO speed at 38400 bit/sec) if supported by the drive.

-S

Enable Happy Warp Speed, XF551 highspeed, 1050 Turbo highspeed and Ultra Speed if supported by the drive.

Note: Ultra Speed and 1050 Turbo highspeed only work with 16C950 serial cards, 16550 cards don't support these baudrates.

-x

Enable workaround for XF551 format detection bugs.

-driveno

Use drive number (1..8). Default is 1. The drive number must match the drive number switches on the Atari drive.

-r imagefile

Read from Atari disk and create an image of its contents. The type of image to create is decided by the extension of the filename, which should end in .atr, .xfd, or .dcm (case-insensitive). If the extension doesn't match any of these, ATR image format is assumed.

-w imagefile

Write a disk image to the drive.

Environment variables

ATARIXFER_DEVICE

Default AtariSIO device, use /dev/atarisio0 if not set.

See also

atariserver(1), adir(1), dir2atr(1)

AtariSIO website: http://www.horus.com/~hias/atari/