9 Apr
2013
9 Apr
'13
8:46 p.m.
Les Mikesell wrote:
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:46 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
(I have piles and stacks and drawers of 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppies with various stuff stored on 'em. I used that usb drive (and an internal 5.25 inch drive) to grab images of all of them (with dd) which I'll eventually organize and burn onto CD or DVD, so I can get rid of all the floppies.)
Exactly my goal right now.
Do you get anything (besides an error) if you try to dd the device to a file?
I sorta-kinda tried that, and got zero bytes. I can try it again, more seriously, tonight.
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