On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:01 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I want to rescue the contents of some old floppy disks. They are 5.25 > inch quad-density with a 7th edition UNIX filesystem on them. > > The normal way to select the appropriate floppy drive configuration is > to select the right device node. The closest is /dev/fdnh720, but that > isn't quite right (I need 10 sectors per track). So I think that I > need the setfdprm command. > > Unfortunately, the setfdprm command was dropped from Fedora around > Fedora Core 6. Here's the changelog entry from util-linux > > * Tue Aug 16 2005 Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> 2.13-0.2.pre2 > ... > - removed: elvtune, rescuept and setfdprm > > Does anyone know why this command was removed? Perhaps the device > driver no longer had the necessary functionality. > > Is there a newer better way to read my disks? > > Gene: this might be a question for you. I see you posted something to > the kernel list about setfdprm a couple of years ago. > http://groups.google.ca/group/linux.kernel/msg/d7d3259d9a8fca2e?hl=en Have you tried what happens if you run Fedora Core 6 in a Virtualbox VM? FC -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
