-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, January 02 2002 02:02 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > what part of > > "not for backup. i need floppies."
The script makes backups OF floppies ( you can make a new copy of the disk from the backup ), not to them. > ryan, about your script. it certainly is sensitive to format. why would > you think otherwise? by accessing /dev/fd0, you're already choosing a > discipline for the floppy driver. what if the disk was formatted with 21 > sectors per track? I thought /dev/fd0 autoprobes physcal format. Anyway, I ment you could make an image of a Mac (HFS) 'PS' (fat12) linux (ext2, minux) formated disk because the filesystem isn't taken into account. I currently use this script to make an image of a floppy I use for work in a one of my classes. - -- No Microsoft products were used in any way for the creation of this message. If you are using a Microsoft product to view it, BEWARE! - I'm not responsible for any harm you might encounter as a result. - -- PGP Public key at http://mother.com/~ryan/ryan_at_mother_dot_com.asc It is also on the servers: Key ID 0x72177BC7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8Mt9bEd9E83IXe8cRAumfAJ99x4J1tZmjIjPXAxJGe8aYe9zJdACeMABd VsGBJLwKJ4rWHL6vCkIMs8I= =184U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
