Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 15:44:30 -0600 From: keyser@clio.rice.edu (Kevin Keyser) To: ptroy@mail.hq.nasa.gov Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reading the contents of a floppy drive in unix Message-ID: <9711172144.AA15307@clio.rice.edu>
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> Using BSD how do I do it? The raw floppy device is accessed via /dev/rfd0 (second drive would be rfd1). For example, one might use the dd utility to create an image file from a 1.44M floppy "dd if=/dev/rfd0 of=image.flp bs=36b". If the floppy has a filesystem, you can mount it... mount /dev/fd0 /mnt (if it is ufs) mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt (if it is MSDOS(FAT)) in order to access its file and directory structure. See also the man pages for these commands and remember to umount before removing it from the drive! Kevin
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