Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 22:39:23 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange request: Reading RX-50 (aka DEC Rainbow 100) disks Message-ID: <3B284E0B.AB077DCB@mindspring.com> References: <200106100032.f5A0WtV34285@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote: > > I have the need to read a whole pile of DEC Rainbow 100 floppies. I > can do it on the DEC Rainbow, but that's a huge pita since it isn't > networked. I'd like to either connect a RX-50 drive to my machine, or > use a 1.2M 5.25" floppy drive that I can scrounge easily enough to do > the deed. > > 80 tracks, 10 spt, 1 side. 400k in size. I think it uses either > 250kb/s or 300kb/s for the data transfer rate (same as the 3.5" low > density drives, if my memory isn't going south). > > Has anybody done this before? Any pointers? I did this all the time on Xenix, using "dd" and the single sided device node. See fdcontrol. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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