[ale] MSD format specifier for Linux?

[Chris Ricker]

On 17 Sep, John M. Mills wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know of an appropriate /dev/fd* setup to dump, copy, and
> format Microsoft's 3.5" distribution media (about 1.7 MBy, I believe)?
> I have a DOS shareware item which does this.  For some reason, I can't get
> it to run under Win95. ;^E
> 
> A Linux /dev/fd* would be great, provided 'fdformat' and 'dd' could use it
> , but I don't know how to make one up, nor how to find out the format
> details.  As Microsoft rather obscures the possibility of doing this at
> all, it would be kind of nice to publicize a simple tool to backup the
> Win95 distribution. 

I believe the package you want is called fdutils (or something like
that).  It has support for xdf floppies at least.  I'm not certain if
it supports dmf (or whatever Microsoft calls it) disks or not.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                 gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu