reading a PC formatted floppy.

From: Dave Kirkby <davek_at_medphys.ucl.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:52:38 +0000 (GMT)

Hi,
        The floppy disk in my PC has failed and I thought I'd use my Dec
Alpha 600a Personal Workstation to read the data, as its the only machine
I have with a floppy drive.

However, I am having problems trying to read this. A book I have on tru64
says the device file is /dev/disk/floppy0a or 0c, both of which are
supposed to be the complete floppy. I also notice there is a
/dev/disk/floppy.

Reading the man page for mount, it would appear there is a -t option to
mount a specific file system, one of which is:

pcfs - PC File System

So I tried:

# mount -r -t pcfs /dev/disk/floppy /mnt
mount: can't exec /sbin/mount_pcfs: No such file or directory

looking for /sbin/mount_*, there seems to be far fewer file system types
than what the 'mount' page suggests.

Any suggestions how to read the data from this floppy which was formatted
on a Windoze PC ?

Dr. David Kirkby PhD,
Received on Mon Nov 10 2003 - 16:55:32 NZDT

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