> 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=20
> earlier
> swim2 and IWM mode controller but that's it. It's definitely not in
> GENERIC on macppc...
>

boing! whoops, sorry, next time i should check twice from which list=20
that came =3D8-)

(to be honest: i never tried a floppy on macppc; furthermore i had to=20
use USB attached ones 'cos i've New World Macs only)

sorry & cheers,

timo

>
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Timo Sch=F6ler 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=3D/dev/rfd0a of=3D/path/to/file'
>>
>> if you want to copy one or more files from the floppy to HD, best is=20=

>> to
>> mount the floppy [please see 'man mount' for the several options of
>> mount(8)]
>>
>> HTH
>>
>>
>
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>
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