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Hardware 4 — How can I read/write MS-DOS floppy disks?

April 26, 2017disks floppy hardware MS-DOS read write

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Hardware 4 — How can I read/write MS-DOS floppy disks?

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If you have a floppy disk drive on your ULTRIX or OSF/1 system, get “mtools”, a set of MS-DOS utilities for UNIX. The package can be copied from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/mtools-2.0.7 It works on both DECstations and Alphas. When you build mtools, you need to find out which device your floppy is (/dev/rrz2c is common). Then you can clone the SPARC definitions, or #define SPARC and make /dev/rfd0c a symlink to the one you need.