What software do I use to put floppies as images on a hard disk?

Question

I still have a large number of floppies. On some of them there probably is source code I don't want to lose. I also don't want to take look at each one individually, as that's going to take a lot of time. What software would be best for copying all data to a hard disk, preferably while creating an index at the same time?

I would also be interested in imaging mac floppies, but it doesn't have to be on the same machine.

[responses]
The goal is to finally get rid of all those boxes with floppies. I was asking about images as xcopy doesn't copy all (hidden?) sectors, does it? Is xxcopy better?

I don't want to type a name for each floppy.

Disk Utility on the mac probably needs a bit too much keyboard or mouse action, but might be appescriptable

Answer 1

Here is a script I used on my Linux box to perform the same type of task. Basically I just a raw image of each disk to a folder. I had another script I ran later that mounted each and dumped a directory listing into a file.

#!/bin/bash

floppydev='/dev/sdb'
savepath='/srv/floppy_imgs'
while true
do
  echo "Press a key to create an image of the next floppy"
  read -n 1

  dd if=$floppydev of=/dev/null count=1 2> /dev/null
  errlvl=$?
  #if the disk isn't in the drive then wait
  while [ $errlvl -ne 0 ]
  do
    sleep 1
    dd if=$floppydev of=/dev/null count=1 2> /dev/null
    errlvl=$?
  done

  filename=$(date +'img-%Y%m%d-%H%M%S.flp')

  if [ ! -f $savepath/$filename ]
  then
    echo "creating image as $filename"
    dd if=$floppydev of=$savepath/$filename
    errlvl=$?

    if [ $errlvl -ne 0 ]
    then
      echo 'the image copy failed!'
      rm -i $savepath/$filename
    else
      mlabel -s -i $savepath/$filename ::
      md5sum $savepath/$filename > $savepath/$filename.md5
      echo "copy complete"
      echo " "
    fi
  fi

done