Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 07:51:06 -0500 From: Network Administrator <admin@scls.lib.wi.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: mount alien floppy? (Brother word processor) Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000804073716.03e5d190@mail.scls.lib.wi.us>
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I have some old Brother word processor 3.5" floppy diskettes with important family data on them (my grandmother's memoirs, et. al.). Mounting one of these floppies on a Windows box yields a "Format? (y/n)" type of error, since the format is not msdos. We have hard copies of the files but are hoping to migrate the data to Windows (grandma's just not ready for BSD ;-). I would like to avoid a time-consuming OCR conversion process or the costly $20 per floppy 3rd party conversion service that Brother referred us to (there are lots of disks to convert). Is there a quick way to mount and read Brother formatted floppies in FreeBSD? I would be very happy if files could be recovered whole, but happy enough if I could just read the data onto the HD for further inspection and handling. Open to any suggestions. TIA, ----------------------------------- Greg Barniskis <admin@scls.lib.wi.us> Network Administrator Library Interchange Network (LINK) South Central Library System (SCLS) <http://www.scls.lib.wi.us/>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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