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2hawks

2006-08-03, 7:14 pm

I am trying to dump raw blocks from a floppy tape device to disk file
in a DOS/Windows environment.

I am having little luck.

I am unable to dd with mks as the floppy driver doesn't perform with
the tape drive.
Obviously I can't treat it like a scsi device.

Does anyone know of any functional drivers that will enable me to
essentially dd from a floppy tape device (Colorad 250 in this case.)

Ftape in linux would work I imagine, however getting it to compile and
work properly is a bear... at least for me. Plus I don't have any 2.4
kernels running on my dual 98/Linux box.

Any thought!?
Thanks.

Will Dormann

2006-08-08, 1:15 am

2hawks wrote:
> Ftape in linux would work I imagine, however getting it to compile and
> work properly is a bear... at least for me. Plus I don't have any 2.4
> kernels running on my dual 98/Linux box.



Maybe try a live cd, like Knoppix?



-WD
2hawks

2006-08-09, 1:14 pm


Will Dormann wrote:
> 2hawks wrote:
>
>
> Maybe try a live cd, like Knoppix?
>
>
>
> -WD


Not a bad idea... I think I will give it a whirl. Thanks for the
suggestion.

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