From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 7 6:28:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-in-01.piro.net (mail-out-02.piro.net [194.64.31.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B308537B78C for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 06:28:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com) Received: from nil.science-factory.com (ScienceFactory-atm1-153.piro.net [195.135.137.205]) by mail-in-01.piro.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/PN-991208) with ESMTP id PAA09793; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 15:25:49 +0200 Received: by nil.science-factory.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 3FF161EE7; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 15:16:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc van Woerkom To: admin@scls.lib.wi.us Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <4.2.2.20000804073716.03e5d190@mail.scls.lib.wi.us> (message from Network Administrator on Fri, 04 Aug 2000 07:51:06 -0500) Subject: Re: mount alien floppy? (Brother word processor) References: <4.2.2.20000804073716.03e5d190@mail.scls.lib.wi.us> Message-Id: <20000807131654.3FF161EE7@nil.science-factory.com> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 15:16:54 +0200 (CEST) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have some old Brother word processor 3.5" floppy diskettes with important > family data on them (my grandmother's memoirs, et. al.). Mounting one of > these floppies on a Windows box yields a "Format? (y/n)" type of error, > since the format is not msdos. Is there no way to link the brother hardware to a FreeBSD box? Seraial link or such? If those floppies are readable at all on PC hardware you might have luck hunting for a converter in old MS DOS file collections (like FIDO mailbox systems :) Regards, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message