HD Floppies in DD Drives

From: Daniel A. Seagraves <dseagrav_at_bsdserver.tek-star.net>
Date: Tue Nov 11 12:29:59 1997

On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Riccardo Romagnoli wrote:

> >I think the best way to do this is to make disk images. I know the Mac can
> >do this with Mac disks, and I'm sure the PC can too, but I've not found
> >(i.e., not looked for) the software to do it. Can someone recommend a PC
> >program to read 5.25" (and 3.5"?) diskettes and make images of them?

> CopyQm is capable to take FDD images and store them in files:it works with
> 5.25" too.
>

Unixes do this real easy:
dd if=/dev/<floppydevice> of=<filename>
Received on Tue Nov 11 1997 - 12:29:59 GMT