Hi Peter,
> Does linux read 5 1/4 disks? My brother in Canada had a 5 1/4 inch
> drive, but says that XP doesn't recognise it. He wants to see what is
> on his disks. He also has an ancient PC (pre-XP) that he might put the
> drive in and test it. But I wondered if he could create a boot disk of
> DSL or similar and read them.
If the PC hardware is compatible with the floppy drive then yes. The
packages you'll find useful are
fdutils - Linux floppy utilities
mtools - Tools for manipulating MSDOS files
cpmtools - Tools to access CP/M file systems
If it's a more obscure format then
http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Unix/LibDsk/ is very handy.
Cheers, Ralph.
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