What is the problem with copying a floppy disk?

Hello Dut_Norshi Dut> Hello! Dut> Please explain (or point me to where I can read) what it is Dut> problem of copying a Spectrum floppy disk to a PC (and vice versa)? Dut> In a PC controller. > That is. why is there no copier written for GNU/Linux? > Because there is no one. Do you want to write? I can answer your questions. I have no time and am lazy. Fundamental difficulties, as in Windows (where the standard The drive driver does not allow it in principle) - no. Fully transparent available (at the command level of the controller itself) interface to the controller. Enough take a look at the fdrawcmd sources. > This is due to the enormous difficulty of writing or simply not for anyone > interesting? Maybe some other problems? > Ah, lamer crafts of Finnish students, red-eyed pioneers and others penguins - who needs it? Tomorrow everyone will forget about her. 70s system no graphics with a scary black console, and there are still some commands there all the time need to be taught. (C) > When, just for fun, I tried to simply copy the floppy disk from > using dd, I only got an I/O error. > Because /dev/fd0 expects to receive 9/17 sectors of 512 bytes. You need to program the controller yourself, similar to fdrawcmd and cmptools. http://fdutils.linux.lu/faq.html http://www.moria.de/~michael/cpmtools/

Hello fk0 Wow, what a deal. Thanks for the information!