On Thursday 13 November 2003 3:44 am, Todd Vierling wrote:

> first off, by "ancient" it better not be double density (non-HD)
> disks, as those are not readable by any standard PC floppy
> controller[*].

Not true. Out of the four 'PC's I have here, all four are able to read 
my old Atari ST DD disks using /dev/rfd0f (see man fdc(4)).

>   $ dd if=/dev/rfd0a of=diskimage.hfv bs=512 count=2880
>
> The resultant image should be mountable in BasiliskII just like any
> other "floppy" option.

This will work so long as the floppy was formatted using 'standard' 
parameters (double-sided, 18 sectors per track, 80 tracks). Anything 
non-standard will require a custom program to issue the relevant 
ioctl(2) calls to the fdc(4) driver.

Cheers, Steve