From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 16 20:42: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C850E37B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 20:42:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com (205-158-62-131.outblaze.com [205.158.62.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 581E143ED4 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 20:42:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from franklin_pierce@operamail.com) Received: (qmail 19229 invoked by uid 1001); 17 Dec 2002 04:42:01 -0000 Message-ID: <20021217044201.19228.qmail@operamail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) Received: from [65.28.10.43] by ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com with http for franklin_pierce@operamail.com; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:42:01 -0600 From: "Franklin Pierce" To: "freebsd" Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:42:01 -0600 Subject: Re: dd X-Originating-Ip: 65.28.10.43 X-Originating-Server: ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Henning" Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:52:11 -0600 To: "freebsd" Subject: dd > Hello, > > i have a floppy disk that is formated 1680 that i would like to make an file > image of. I would also like to write the image back to a new floppy. Do i > need a device /dev/fd0.1680? > > > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=image.img doesn't seem to work. > any advice? > Start working with unstressed disk formats? make(1) hay while . . . But seriously, are you running this as root or user? Have you amortised the cost of acceptance across your 5 year plan? Where is your darling /dev/rfd0, just in case you need a backup for the backup? Oh yeah, it's probably still stressed on a 2.88 drive, but aren't we all? Love, Franklin Pierce -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message