DEC Rainbow RX50 disks MS-DOS/FAT file system support

[jfcarrano]

From my testing it looks like filesystem access for DEC Rainbow RX50 disks with MS-DOS/FAT are not supported by fluxengine. Is that correct? If so, would it be possible to add that? I'm hoping to copy some files out of the disk images I have.

[davidgiven]

Yes, should be --- it just depends on how quirky the format is. The first thing to try is just adding filesystem.fatfs= to the custom configuration (the button to the right of the format dropdown). That'll use the default settings.

[jfcarrano]

Thanks for the quick reply. I've added that line to the config but get this error when clicking Browse files, "can't set this config value type."

[davidgiven]

Urgh.

Try filesystem.fatfs={}. It's been a while since I touched this stuff...

[jfcarrano]

Sadly, getting the same error with that too

[davidgiven]

Great, looks like I broke that.

If you create a text file containing:

filesystem { fatfs {} }

...save it as fat.textpb in the current directory, then you should be able to put fat.textpb in the extra config and it'll load the settings from that file.

[jfcarrano]

The other error is gone but now I am back to: "no filesystem configured" when attempting to browse files. I have the textpb file in the directory with the GUI and am launching it from there. Is that the correct spot for that?

[davidgiven]

Sorry for the delay, been doing bugfixes...

Also, I'm afraid I misled you. I changed the way this works and then forgot about it. Try:

filesystem.type=FATFS

...in the extra config box. You don't need any files.

[jfcarrano]

No worries! Just tried that out and get the error "Invalid Filesystem" when I click Browse files. Assuming that's not a config issue, this might be progress?

[jfcarrano]

I'm curious if you've made any progress on this? No worries if not, just figuring out if I should go attempt some of the other methods I've seen to extract files from these disk images