From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263060AbTKYUcn (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:32:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263064AbTKYUcn (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:32:43 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:65416 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263060AbTKYUcl (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:32:41 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: Copy protection of the floppies Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:32:39 +0100 Message-ID: References: <5F0021EEA434D511BE7300D0B7B6AB530CA67677@mail2.ggn.hcltech.com> <20031125201842.GC30083@wind.cocodriloo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:o+AObOvD3WJNFfsc+dm1TwfFcfw= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se