Bob Proulx wrote: > Hint 2: Make a bit copy of the disk to a file and then mount the > file. Again, this should completely avoid any write to the floppy and > therefore be safe working with the data. > > dd of=/dev/fd0 of=fd.image.raw bs=8k
!!WARNING WARNING!! I made a mistake in the above. That should have been: dd if=/dev/fd0 of=fd.image.raw bs=8k Make sure that it is 'if' for input-file and not 'of' for output-file. Make sure the input file is from the floppy and not the output file or you will write all over your data. Fortunately when I tested that just now it seems to not actually write anything if you interrupt it with a control-c but still not good. > ...remove the floppy from the drive...put in safe place... > > mount -o loop,ro $PWD/fd.image.raw /mnt Bob
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