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Re: 3B1 Floppies

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In article <cu8kmiFlslfU1@mid.individual.net>,
Bill Gunshannon <billg999@cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>Does anyone know if the format of 3B1 disks allows for mounting and reading
>on a BSD or Linux box?  I have some disks that I would like to read before
>it is too late and I really don't know when 9or even if) I will have a 3B1
>running again.
>
From talking with my wife who has one the machine was capabile of writing
normal FAT disks that should be readable without issues. Some also were
cpio files written to the device without a file system. I don't know if
current cpio will process them if you point to the fd device. Other formats 
were possible. Also some disks has strange number of sectors.

Do you know how the disks were written?

This page lists 3b1.
https://fdutils.linux.lu/Fdutils.html

I have used imagedisk to make images of 3b1 floppies. Its a DOS program.
http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm

Not sure if this is in a useable state to try to process floppy images.
http://www.philpem.me.uk/code/3b1emu/

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