Date   : Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:35:47 +0100
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: Writing BBC Disc Images on Linux

2009/4/13 Ian Wolstenholme <bbcmailinglist@...>:
> I think part of the problem might be that I don't appear to be able to read
> double density 720K discs on my computer under Ubuntu - I have put
> some messages on the Ubuntu forums to see if anyone can help.

My main PC runs Mandriva, and I had a problem whereby the floppy drive
only showed up as /dev/fd0. I couldn't therefore send an image to
/dev/fd0d720, for example. I think I got round it my using mformat
first, such as mformat a: /f:720, then using dd to send the image. I
was trying to write CP/M format images for one of my Amstrad PCWs,
which helped, I don't know what the appropriate thing to do would be
for Beeb images.

Referring back to something someone said earlier about USB floppy
drives, my mentioning the PCW has just reminded me that I successfully
used a USB floppy drive to write CP/M format disk images to 720K
floppies. I can't remember what software or OS I used though...

-- 
Alex Taylor