Im pretty sure the amiga floppy had a prorpiatry controller, all i rember is that its not pc compatible :(
----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant Parnell - non-work email" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 8:26 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] reading ancient floppies ... > Hey I'd like to do this myself, I've got a few amiga disks. I suspect > maybe they're referring to an Amiga floppy drive which I had up till now > thought was the same as a standard 720K 3.5 inch drive. I would have one > somewhere so I might try the tools you mention & also try the Amiga > drive. Of course, I assume you've tried:- > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=myfile.adf (never know you're luck). > Maybe, try fd0D720, fd0H720, fd0H880 devices, or even some of the fd0u > devices which I'd assume means unformatted. Basically telling the > device/os what density you want. > > > On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 06:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been given some floppies which are apparently Amiga/Commodore. > > According to one www reference I found, it's easy > > to read them. You just > > dd if=/dev/fd0a of=myfile.adf > > and get 880k bytes of ADF. > > However, I don't have /dev/fd0a. Have you seen one? - what > > are its major and minor numbers, please, and what kernel are > > you running? > > Another web site reckes I should try fdutils. I did, but > > the results suggest that I need non-PC hardware. > > > > Can anyone advise, please? > > > > Jim Donovan > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- > ---<GRiP>--- > Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz > Mobile: 0408 686 201 > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
