On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, 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.

You should be able to use:

  mount -t msdos /dev/fd0

> Stuffing them into a WinXP or Win2K box results in a request to reformat 
> the disk, and I definitely don't want that. Seeking good ideas from 
> anybody. Thanks.

Can you read any other floppies on your XP or Win2K boxes? Sometimes the 
floppy drives go bad.


Rob

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