14 Aug
2014
14 Aug
'14
3:15 p.m.
At 09:46 AM 8/14/2014, you wrote:
USB floppies exist and can be used on Macs...
I was talking abut proprietary floppies, not regular ones.
I would second the recommendation for dd as the tool of
choice, but of course you have to
have the device first.
I'd like to know if "dd" works. I'll test Monday, if no one else does,
but I don't think it works on Mac/Unix. It does on Linux though, so I've heard.
Garth Hjelte
Sampler User
14 Aug
14 Aug
3:38 p.m.
New subject: S550 disks L503-L509
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Garth Hjelte <garth(a)chickensys.com> wrote:
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.
As Peter Heitzer was alluding to, I think the hardest part would be
figuring out what device name to use, since naming standards also
differ between Mac's brand of Unix and Linux.
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....
At 09:46 AM 8/14/2014, you wrote:
There are two things here:
1) software: proprietary format on disk (i.e. not FAT32, NTFS, etc)
2) hardware: proprietary disk format (i.e. quickdisk instead of "standard")
#1 is just a stream of bits, which is what dd excels at. #2 wouldn't
be any easier on a Windows box, I'm not aware of windows attached
QuickDisk drives for example.
USB floppies exist and can be used on Macs...
I was talking abut proprietary floppies, not regular ones. I would second
the recommendation for dd as the tool of choice, but of course you have to
have the device first.
I'd like to know if "dd" works. I'll test Monday, if no one else
does, but I don't think it works on Mac/Unix. It does on Linux though, so I've
heard.
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