On 25/06/10 15:05, Chris Walker wrote:
On 25/06/10 14:27, Adam Bower wrote:
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:50:44PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote:
Can somebody point out my error please?
Searching the web suggests that you can't mount adfs formatted floppy disks in Linux due to weirdness of the floppy controller (similar to what Steve said about Amiga disks) there are a few solutions so you could try them where you pull the image of the floppy off the disk and then mount that. Of course, some of these pages might be quite old so no idea if they will work for you or not.
Adam
The problem so far is that the programs, like OmniFlop, don't work with USB drives. So I've now dragged the old machine onto the desk beside me and have just fired it up to see if I can persuade that to read the various floppies.
Thanks to everybody for their help. I'll report back.
Got it working!
That was on my old P4 machine and which has an inbuilt floppy drive.
It runs Debian to which I installed fdutils.
I could then enter the setfdprm commands for the appropriate sized discs I want to read.
As I imagined, when running dd to generate files, it's having problems with some of the discs. But I've recovered a couple so far with another couple of failures. But I've managed to generate an 800k disc file of some ancestry pictures which are important as I'm doing my family tree at the moment.
I found some relevant information on www.adsb.co.uk/bbc/linux
Hopefully those people with Amigas etc will have as much if not more luck with their attempts at reading discs.