Reading 5.25" Floppy Disks

Reading 5.25" Floppy Disks

This article presumes that the reader has a working 5.25" floppy drive, a connector cable and a computer that has a corresponding connector on the motherboard (34 pin ATA/ATAPI).

• Open the computer and position the drive in an empty slot in the drive rack. You might need to remove a small metal sheet and the corresponding plastic cover from the case.
• Connect the drive to the main board using the connector cable. The cable itself can only be connected in one way to the drive because of the plastic division bar in the connector. However, it might be possible to connect the cable in the wrong position to the motherboard.
• Connect the electricity cable to the drive.

TODO:Warnig with photo TODO: twist in connector cable

• wiring of floppy drive
• set drive in BIOS
• boot Linux

mkdir /home/dsl/data

sudo mount -r -t msdos /dev/fd1 /mnt/floppy
cd /mnt/floppy
ls -l
cp -r -p * /home/dsl/data
cd /home/dsl/
zip -r data01.zip /home/dsl/data
rm -fr /home/dsl/data/*
sudo umount /dev/fd1