Tom wrote:
> I assume no one ever got an 8" flop going under DOS/Win/Linux?
You know what happens when you assume. :-)
Some PC floppy controllers can handle single density (FM) and others
can't. All can handle double density (MFM). I was lucky with both
motherboards I've used for this, an Asus P2B-F (Pentium 2/3 slot 1) and
an Asus A7M266-D (dual Athlon).
It's easy to get them working in Linux. You just need an appropriate
cable. If you just want a "raw" image, you can use the setfdprm utility
(from the util-linux or fdutils packages) to set the parameters (bytes
per sector, etc.). Then you can dd the contents of the floppy to a file.
I archive the contents of 8-inch disks into DMK format using a
program I wrote called rfloppy, which is part of my dmklib package:
http://dmklib.brouhaha.com/
It automatically figures out the characteristics of the floppy.
Eric
Received on Thu Dec 09 2004 - 18:19:13 GMT