floppy

[agabriel at home.tzo.org (Anthony J. Gabrielson)]

How do I read a raw floppy?

I have never had to before...

Thanks,
Anthony

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Adam S. Moskowitz wrote:

> The two most likely formats are an MS-DOS filesystem or a raw disk.
> 
> The former can be read on any DOS/Windows system, or the the "mtools" on
> Linux or Sularis (mread and mdir).
> 
> The latter can be read using dd (on Solaris or Linux). Or, try reading
> with cpio or tar, since that's a common way to write raw floppies.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> AdamM
>