Nonstandard lowlevel formats and USB floppy drives is linux capable 2948

Luser mount interface drive

You are reading the words of an abjectly ignorant person re: some of this low level stuff. Pretty much gave it up when I quit programming DOS many years ago.

But me thinks you have a point that you would need to confirm some ability to mount the thing even if you could format it to 1.77. That may prove to be the real problem.

But then there must be some way to "mount" the raw, unformatted device and do low level read-writes straight to disk -- especially with floppies -- so maybe I just need to find the right code.

DWC still digs into the code fruitfully -- unlike my wandering aimlessly -- so I thought the previous post might be helpful. But being a Friday afternoon doofus I honestly did not think to look at the mount-read end of it. Which is, of course, your real problem at the moment.

Hmmm...

I'll see if I can stumble on something with Google. At least I kinda know what to look for now. I think ;-)

I'll let you know what turns up.

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