From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 16 08:23:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA29814 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 08:23:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (dkelly@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA29805 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 08:23:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id KAA26984 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 10:22:50 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 10:22:50 -0500 (CDT) From: David Kelly Message-Id: <199709161522.KAA26984@fly.HiWAAY.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 8" Floppy drive? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.