From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 13 22:39: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6DE437B405 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 22:38:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.247.142.175.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.142.175]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA25518; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 01:38:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B284E0B.AB077DCB@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 22:39:23 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange request: Reading RX-50 (aka DEC Rainbow 100) disks References: <200106100032.f5A0WtV34285@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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