Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 10:22:50 -0500 (CDT) From: David Kelly <dkelly@fly.HiWAAY.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 8" Floppy drive? Message-ID: <199709161522.KAA26984@fly.HiWAAY.net>
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At the very least this should be good for a laugh, but the boss dug up about 50 8" floppies and wants the data off of them and onto modern media. From way back, I recal the 1.2M floppy hardware interface wasn't terribly different from the 8". Where both 8" and 1.2M disks turn 360 RPM vs 300 RPM for 360k disks. Maybe there is a chance an 8" drive can be attached to my FreeBSD system? I actually have a couple of 8" drives. Would be interested in any suggestions, FreeBSD related or not. Meanwhile I've got a lead on a Xerox 820 with CP/M that may be able to read these disks. Who knows what format they are in! May find a hard-sectored system but have soft-sectored floppies. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm) ====================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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