On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 13:20:07 -0700
jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth) wrote:

>      Use rfd0a.  Floppy drives are different from hard drives in that
> the final letter is used to indicated the type of floppy and not a
> partition.  By using rfd0c you told it that you have a 720KB floppy.
Ahh, yes, of course. Forgot that detail. (I haven't used floppies for
some years now...)

[man fdc]

No luck:
# dd if=3D/dev/rfd0c of=3D/tmp/rfd0a=20
fd0: timeout: state 10
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0
fd0: controller status: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 10
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0
fd0: controller status: state 13
dd: /dev/rfd0c: Input/output error
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 5.797 secs (0 bytes/sec)
# dd if=3D/dev/rfd0c of=3D/tmp/rfd0b=20
fd0: timeout: state 10
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0
fd0: controller status: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 10
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0
fd0: controller status: state 13
dd: /dev/rfd0c: Input/output error
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 5.790 secs (0 bytes/sec)
--=20


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