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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!cats.ucsc.edu!isbell
  2. From: isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: Need to view sectors on floppy disk
  5. Date: 7 Nov 1992 18:45:43 GMT
  6. Organization: Cubic Solutions - NeXT software development and consulting
  7. Lines: 20
  8. Message-ID: <1dh2snINNbrr@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
  9. References: <1992Nov4.171057.13733@tds.com> <1992Nov6.115617.19615@rhein-main.de>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu
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  13. In article <1992Nov6.115617.19615@rhein-main.de> vhs@rhein-main.de writes:
  14. >From the command line, try
  15. >    od -c </dev/rfd0a
  16. [etc.]
  17.  
  18. >Since I don't have a floppy drive I don't know 100% if /dev/rfd0a is
  19. >the right device, but I'm pretty sure.
  20.  
  21. >The whole thing might be faster if you read with dd instead, thus
  22. >    dd if=/dev/rfd0a bs=18K of=- | od -c
  23.  
  24. For external floppy drives (e.g., Cubes), the proper device is /dev/rsd?a, in
  25. which '?' varies with, but is not usually equal to, the SCSI address.
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  27.  
  28. Art Isbell                                                      Cubic Solutions
  29. NeXT Registered Developer #745         NeXT software development and consulting
  30. Email: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU                                Voice: (408)335-1154
  31. USmail: 95018-9442                                           Fax: (408)335-2515
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