Re: Can Linux read DMF format floppies?
Oleg Kibirev (snowcat@netgate.net)
Tue, 20 Aug 1996 19:28:00 -0700 (PDT)
> Can Linux read DMF format floppies? DMF is Microsoft's "Distribution Media
> Format". Some of the applications they make are distributed in this floppy
> format. I don't know the exact geometry of these floppies. I've been
> told it's something like 21 instead of 18 sectors per track. Does anyone
> know where I can find a spec for DMF?
> Thanks,
> Ron
> PS. Yes, I've looked at floppy.c in the kernel source...
> --
Yeah, Linux can read these floppies. You may need to access /dev/fd0H1740
instead of /dev/fd0 and format them with superformat from the lastest
fdutils.