Date   : Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:44:31 +0100
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: DFS and ADFS floppies under Linux

Andrew Benham wrote:
> I've been doing some more experimentation, and have updated the page
>     http://www.adsb.co.uk/bbc/linux/
> with my findings.
> 
> It is possible to set the floppy driver so that ADFS and DFS disks
> can be read natively.

Subject to having a compatible FDC :-( And of the machines that will read FM 
data, many of them are missing the ability to write it.

I still want to patch the Linux kernel so that the floppy driver can be told 
to better cope with error conditions - but I'm stuck here in the US with a 
laptop that has no floppy drive, so I can't do any testing of any FDC-related 
stuff right now. (I do have the source code to Imagedisk handy, so I'm looking 
at how Dave does his analysis and recovery there with a view to incorporating 
some of the tricks into the Linux driver)

cheers

Jules