Awesome Andre. Thank for the help!
Thanks, Bryan On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Andre Smagin <a...@smagin.com> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 18:11:07 -0500 > "Bryan C. Everly" <br...@bceassociates.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm wanting to create a boot floppy for a Vaxstation. Could someone > > recommend a USB floppy that I could plug into my amd64 laptop that would > > allow me to create a boot floppy for a VAX? > > > > Thanks, > > Bryan > > Hi. > > I don't know anything about VAXes, but I do use USB floppy drive often. > The drive I have is a bit flaky, equally so under OpenBSD and Windows, > and needs the disk to be ejected and reinserted, or the drive unplugged > and reconnected sometimes, but, generally speaking, it works. A bit slow > under OpenBSD when mounting and using FAT disks. > > Sold by Amazon as "Nippon Labs" USB floppy drive: > > umass0 at uhub7 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "TEAC TEAC FD-05PUB" > rev 2.00/0.00 addr 2 > umass0: using UFI over CBI with CCI > scsibus2 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0 > sd3 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 0: <TEAC, FD-05PUB, 3000> ATAPI 0/direct > removable > > > Just tried dd'ing the vax image onto a disk using that drive: > > $ time sudo dd if=/tmp/floppy58.fs of=/dev/rsd3c bs=1m > 1+1 records in > 1+1 records out > 1474560 bytes transferred in 51.998 secs (28358 bytes/sec) > 0m53.58s real 0m00.00s user 0m00.01s system > > -- > Andre
