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Date:      Mon,  7 Aug 2000 18:41:23 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Marc van Woerkom <marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com>
To:        admin@scls.lib.wi.us
Cc:        marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mount alien floppy? (Brother word processor)
Message-ID:  <20000807164123.0AD011EE7@nil.science-factory.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000807101457.07b0e100@mail.scls.lib.wi.us> (message from Network Administrator on Mon, 07 Aug 2000 10:27:17 -0500)
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> The floppies are truly alien. I tried dd with if=/dev/fd0 and it aborted 
> when fd0 didn't find what it expected. Their web site indicates that their 
> oldest models use a 240K proprietary format, and I think that is what I'm 
> up against.

What is the exact type?
Were you able to locate  specs for your model?

This one

   http://www.brother.com/eu-wp/info/cm-2000/cm-2000.html

seems to use standard floppies. 
Maybe you have to try with 

    /dev/fd0.720 

and not just /dev/fd0.. 


Regards,
MArc


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