http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=560186
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=560186#c1
--- Comment #1 from robert spitzenpfeil 2009-12-03 00:31:59 UTC ---
Accessing the disks using /dev/fd0H1680 seems to work, but I had to create the
device node by hand!
/dev/fd0H1680 (major 2, minor 44) should be a 21x2x80 3.5" floppy.
I had to use some info from a 1996 post about this topic:
http://lkml.org/lkml/1996/8/20/6
So if the driver is still there, why are the device nodes not created. Probably
because of UDEV and the 'on the fly' mania, right ? At least legacy stuff that
is still in the kernel could have static device nodes, no ? Maybe an USB floppy
would have read the disks, but I can't check that.
Is /dev/fd0 + mtools supposed to auto detect the raw format ? If so it doesn't
work.
I'm also aware that floppy disks are ancient and 99.9% obsolete, but there are
times when it can be useful to read old disks.
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