[ale] MSD format specifier for Linux?

[Josh Murrah]

WOW, I just tried this.  What's the deal??  It does a DMF format disk,
but, jsut as Chris says, it's 'corrupted' if you try to access the file
(I copied using explorer). What's up with that?


Joshua Murrah, jmurrah at salug.org, http://www.salug.org/~jmurrah
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On Wed, 17 Sep 1997 chrisf at computone.com wrote:

> If you use dd the file on the disk is corrupt. Windows will give you errors
> that it is corrupt.
> 
> On 17-Sep-97 Josh Murrah wrote:
> >
> >You can't pull the DMF format disks off by using dd? 
> >
> >to pull from disk : dd if=/dev/fd0 of=filename
> >to write to disk  : dd if =filename of=/dev/fd0