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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Are there any NIX OS's other than A/UX which can write floppies? | Posted by: tattar8 on 2020-05-31 16:27:49
I'm trying to set up a headless machine I can download floppy images to, and then write them to disk using dd or equivalent. I was planning to use a Beige G3 for this, since I figured it probably has the widest variety of OS choices. Do any of the various NIXes out there (NetBSD, Linux, Rhapsody, OSX, etc) support the built-in floppy drive? I saw a mention that some SWIM controllers were supported in Linux, but no more information. Also, this is a longshot, but do any of them support writing 800k disks?
If there's nothing, then I guess I'll have to settle with a VNC server running on OS9.
| Posted by: Franklinstein on 2020-05-31 18:26:20
From what I've seen Rhapsody has full SWIM support even though its immediate successor sadly didn't; it's worth a shot if you're already familiar with Rhapsody and have a working copy. An old (OLD) NetBSD or Linux kernel may have some floppy support but to what degree, I couldn't say.
| Posted by: tattar8 on 2020-06-01 00:53:30
So Rhapsody has SWIM support but OS X Server 1.x doesn’t?
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