At 1:34 PM -0500 9/3/05, Michael Hennebry wrote: >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 ? It can be different if you are coping with errors, and need to do it by sectors. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
