floppy driver / fdformat

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Hi,

is there a way to open up the sources of the
floppy driver in order that someone could write or
port the ‘fdformat’ utility ??

Armin

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Armin Steinhoff <A-Steinhoff@web_.de> wrote:

: Hi,

: is there a way to open up the sources of the
: floppy driver in order that someone could write or
: port the ‘fdformat’ utility ??

There’s a version of fdformat in the works here (I already have some docs
for it :slight_smile: ) but last I heard, it wasn’t ready to be released.

Steve Reid stever@qnx.com
TechPubs (Technical Publications)
QNX Software Systems Ltd.

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Previously, Steve Reid wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.os:

Armin Steinhoff <A-Steinhoff@web_.de> wrote:

: Hi,

: is there a way to open up the sources of the
: floppy driver in order that someone could write or
: port the ‘fdformat’ utility ??

There’s a version of fdformat in the works here (I already have some docs
for it > :slight_smile: > ) but last I heard, it wasn’t ready to be released.

Steve Reid > stever@qnx.com
TechPubs (Technical Publications)
QNX Software Systems Ltd.

How about the mtools package? Is that available/in the works?

Thanks,

Arthur