I want to rescue the contents of some old floppy disks. They are 5.25 inch quad-density with a 7th edition UNIX filesystem on them. The normal way to select the appropriate floppy drive configuration is to select the right device node. The closest is /dev/fdnh720, but that isn't quite right (I need 10 sectors per track). So I think that I need the setfdprm command. Unfortunately, the setfdprm command was dropped from Fedora around Fedora Core 6. Here's the changelog entry from util-linux * Tue Aug 16 2005 Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> 2.13-0.2.pre2 ... - removed: elvtune, rescuept and setfdprm Does anyone know why this command was removed? Perhaps the device driver no longer had the necessary functionality. Is there a newer better way to read my disks? Gene: this might be a question for you. I see you posted something to the kernel list about setfdprm a couple of years ago. http://groups.google.ca/group/linux.kernel/msg/d7d3259d9a8fca2e?hl=en -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
