From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263053AbTKZD6o (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:58:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263082AbTKZD6n (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:58:43 -0500 Received: from out008pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.108]:33268 "EHLO out008.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263053AbTKZD6m (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:58:42 -0500 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: gene.heskett@verizon.net To: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns?= =?iso-8859-1?q?=20Rullg=E5rd?=), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Copy protection of the floppies Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:58:39 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <5F0021EEA434D511BE7300D0B7B6AB530CA67677@mail2.ggn.hcltech.com> <20031125201842.GC30083@wind.cocodriloo.com> In-Reply-To: Organization: None that appears to be detectable by casual observers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311252258.39380.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out008.verizon.net from [151.205.54.127] at Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:58:41 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 25 November 2003 15:32, Måns Rullgård wrote: >Antonio Vargas writes: >> Usual PC floppy controllers are not very flexible, so you just >> need some more-flexible controller to do the trick. A popular >> choice for creating master disks is to get an Amiga with an 1.44 >> floppy (any A4000 will do), make some scratched disks and then >> duplicate them with some fine 1990-ish hardware disk copier. > >If I'd like to copy those disks, I'd just have to dig out the old >Amiga, right? Yup, it has the magic twanger built right in. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.