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Re: [disklavier] External floppy

2014-01-18 by Sam Kanter

Have you tried this?

http://www.kinura.net/ppfbu/


Sam
www.keyboardcollective.com
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*(Sent from phone - please excuse brevity and typos.)

Sam
www.keyboardcollective.com
(212) 684-3304

*(Sent from phone - please excuse brevity and typos.)

> On Jan 18, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Ronald Natalie <ron@...> wrote:
>
> I bought one of these:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000M3GODW/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
>
> Though I've not used it yet.
>
> My understanding is that the only thing "non-standard" on the disks is that they didn't write a sector 0.   You can't directly mount it with the standard PC software, but if you can access the raw disk, you will find a dos FAT filesystem there. There is DOS (real DOS unfortunately, not stuff that can run on Windows) to access this. I figure when I get a few days I'll write MAC software to use the thing.
>
>

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