Re: Need to view sectors on floppy disk

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From: Art Isbell
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 18:45

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In article <1992Nov6.115617.19615@rhein-main.de> vhs@rhein-main.de writes:
>From the command line, try
>	od -c </dev/rfd0a
[etc.]

>Since I don't have a floppy drive I don't know 100% if /dev/rfd0a is
>the right device, but I'm pretty sure.

>The whole thing might be faster if you read with dd instead, thus
>	dd if=/dev/rfd0a bs=18K of=- | od -c

For external floppy drives (e.g., Cubes), the proper device is /dev/rsd?a, in
which '?' varies with, but is not usually equal to, the SCSI address.
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Art Isbell                                                      Cubic Solutions
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