Unless I'm incredibly out of it, there's no driver for the SWIM3 floppy
controller in either mac68k or macppc. mac68k has a driver for the earlier
swim2 and IWM mode controller but that's it. It's definitely not in
GENERIC on macppc...


On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Timo Schöler wrote:

> hi,
>
> > how do I copy a floppy disk to my hard drive?
>
> if you want to make an image of the disk, do
>
> 'dd if=/dev/rfd0a of=/path/to/file'
>
> if you want to copy one or more files from the floppy to HD, best is to
> mount the floppy [please see 'man mount' for the several options of
> mount(8)]
>
> HTH
>
>

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