On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Tony Nelson wrote: > I don't know how to solve your entire problem, but I suggest that you use > dd to copy the entire contents of each floppy into a file, so that you > don't wear them out, and so you know if the floppy data has been properly > read. Once you find a solution to reading the floppy format, you can mount > the image files over a loopback interface and work with then as if they > were still on floppies, only faster and more safely. dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.on.hard ? Is that different from cp /dev/fd0 floppy.on.hard ? > If the floppies are hard to read, sometimes just trying 50 times will > succeed. This is another reason to try to get the data off them, as the > process may tend to wear them out. -- Mike hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "There are three kinds of people, those who can count and those who can't."
