Warner Losh wrote:
>
> I have the need to read a whole pile of DEC Rainbow 100 floppies. I
> can do it on the DEC Rainbow, but that's a huge pita since it isn't
> networked. I'd like to either connect a RX-50 drive to my machine, or
> use a 1.2M 5.25" floppy drive that I can scrounge easily enough to do
> the deed.
>
> 80 tracks, 10 spt, 1 side. 400k in size. I think it uses either
> 250kb/s or 300kb/s for the data transfer rate (same as the 3.5" low
> density drives, if my memory isn't going south).
>
> Has anybody done this before? Any pointers?
I did this all the time on Xenix, using "dd" and the single
sided device node. See fdcontrol.
-- Terry
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