On Wednesday 17 April 2013 09:01:30 am Alan Peterson wrote: > So far the web has been of no use to me; is there a way to read old > (Win95,98) floppy diskettes under Linux? I have a considerable amount of > material (old Radio World articles, MIDI compositions etc) that I want > converted to a more modern storage format. > > Stuffing them into a WinXP or Win2K box results in a request to reformat the > disk, and I definitely don't want that.
Yes, absolutely ! ( if the data is still there ) Firstly, I'm surprised XP won't read them ! If they have a file system ( "format" in Micro$oft parlance ) they should mount. mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat,msdos,ntfs /mnt/floppy should either mount it, or produce an error that the file system type is not understood by the kernel. ( vfat is the "long file name" Micro$oft work-a-round patch on the msdos FAT system ) If that fails, then you'd need to know why, or you need me. :) -- Cowboy http://cowboy.cwf1.com Moon, n.: 1. A celestial object whose phase is very important to hackers. See PHASE OF THE MOON. 2. Dave Moon (MOON@MC). _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
