[plug] `dd` and SSDD floppies?

[John Summerfield]

> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, John Summerfield wrote:
> >                  12 = /dev/fd?u360      3.5"   360K Double Density(2)
> 
> Thanks John. This came *very* close to working :)
> 
>   monster:/dev# mknod fd0SSDD b 2 12
>   monster:/dev# dd if=/dev/fd0SSDD of=~/beesystem.bin
>   720+0 records in
>   720+0 records out
> 
> Unfortunately, it writes a disk that my 'Bee doesn't recognise as a boot
> disk. http://www.tux.org/pub/tux/knaff/fdutils/disk-id.html suggests
> grabbing fdutils and issuing a command along the lines of `setfdprm
> /dev/fd0SSDD sect=40 hd ssize=128 cyl=80` (with correct settings though;
> that was just a pasted example).
> 
> Looks like this might just be a doable proposition :).

dd can copy bits of files. Presumably you can pick bits of the image and 
join them up.

If you have a running bee, connect serial ports and copy with whatever 
comms software you use.
 

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John Summerfield
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