On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:50:44PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote:
Can somebody point out my error please?
I have a usb floppy drive attached to my machine. If I insert a DOS floppy, the light comes on and Dolphin pops up to tell me the disc label. But I want to read some adfs formatted floppies and the thing isn't playing ball.
If I run cat /proc/partitions with the DOS floppy in, it tells me it's sdc but if try it with an adfs floppy the light comes on and goes off. If I then type mount -t adfs /dev/sdc /media/floppy it tells me that there is no medium found on /dev/sdc so what am I doing wrong?
Apologies in advance if I'm talking out of my bottom but...
I'm assuming by adfs, you mean the old apple floppy format. If I remember correctly, Apple's used a similar floppy controller to Amigas which spins the disc at varying speeds depending on the disc it's reading/writing. IBM-style floppy controllers (again, iirc) spin at a constant rate and are incapable of reading those more esoteric/sensible* floppy formats.
The above being the case, I share your sympathy as I dearly wanted to be able to stick my Amiga floppies into my PC and just rip all the content off into files. I ended up just getting an ethernet card for my Amiga :)
HTH HAND, Steve
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