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From: Jan Ciger <jan.ciger@epfl.ch>
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> > I agree, but it probably does work only with floppies.
>
> Nope. It obviosly needs access (R/W) to the device/partition, and the right
> configuration. I've used it with floppies and parallel Zip drives, and
> sometime even with a loopback-mounted floppy image ;-)

Yeah, but you have to specify the format, and that is not that easy. It is a 
good way, how to screw your disks, when you do not know, what are you doing. 
I know, that it works with other things than floppies, but you have to have 
the format definition mentioned above. 

Jan
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