From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 7 9:46:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-in-02.piro.net (mail-out-01.piro.net [194.64.31.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8421737B9D6 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 09:46:43 -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-02.piro.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/PN-991208) with ESMTP id SAA29126; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 18:46:40 +0200 Received: by nil.science-factory.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 0AD011EE7; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 18:41:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc van Woerkom To: admin@scls.lib.wi.us Cc: marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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) Subject: Re: mount alien floppy? (Brother word processor) 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> Message-Id: <20000807164123.0AD011EE7@nil.science-factory.com> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 18:41:23 +0200 (CEST) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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