[Coco] Re: 6309 microprocessor project: 11-05-2003

Nathan Woods npwoods at cybercom.net
Thu Nov 6 14:26:00 EST 2003


John W. Linville writes: 

> We should not neglect the use of Linux (especially with MESS).  The
> fdparm  utility can setup the floppy drives for a number of physical
> formats, after which the "dd" command is quite capable of reading/writing
> images from/to the drives. 
> 
> Just a thought...

Of course not.  I'm willing to bet Linus is a bet more accomodating than 
Bill is for such hardware. 

Pretty much the same issues apply here; just like I don't have access to a 
Win9x box with 5.25" drives, I don't have access to a similar Linux box. 





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