-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2017-12-13 at 09:12 -0500, James Knott wrote:
On 12/13/2017 09:07 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
dd is no good with them, they have to be restored with proprietary software (PC tools backup) in a suitable machine. Which is why it is such a nuisance that I balkout at the idea.
I thought dd copied sectors, regardless of the format. You should still be able to back up the disks and restore to another floppy.
As long as you use the standar number of tracks and sectors, not a proprietary format that reprograms the timings and the checksums sizes, payload sizes, etc. Floppy drives are very dumb, the processor has to switch the motors on an off "manually" timing the operations. Very different from modern media. Also means that the processor can not order the operation and forget, but instead keeps busy. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAloxOB8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UO8gCeLyvXIqkadJGL/fXiUSeGAMIH EBwAn2ozXMsZVGgJcIbo25Yd8+btSPy2 =2MvL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org