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) References: <4.2.2.20000804073716.03e5d190@mail.scls.lib.wi.us> <4.2.2.20000804073716.03e5d190@mail.scls.lib.wi.us> <4.2.2.20000807101457.07b0e100@mail.scls.lib.wi.us>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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