14 Aug
2014
14 Aug
'14
4:16 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Garth Hjelte <garth(a)chickensys.com> wrote:
I can assure you (from this Mac right here in front of me :-) ) that
it does exist and I have used it for things like the sd card for a
raspberry pi.
I don't have an S5X. which is what I meant. I'm here because I have
an S10 with a QD.
If it works on
Linux, I would be shocked if it didn't work on Mac,
because underneath macOS on the command line, you have a full Unix
system, very much like Linux other than the kernel, which isn't really
relevant to a floppy drive device.
I'd hope so... but I believe what Apple puts forward lines up to what they want, and
my feeling is that "dd" is not working or not included. Otherwise that would be a solution to many problems
that have lasted years. Since it hasn't been solved, I assume dd has been tried and
found wanting. But I'm optimistic, but real at the same time. Let get it tested
first.
That sounds like the best approach....
I look forward
to hearing the results. I could write the data (I have
a mac and a USB floppy) but I have no way to verify that it's
right....
Why don't you take a S5x floppy, read it using dd, then write it using dd, and see
if your S5x reads it still? That's essentially what I will do when I get back.