Reading old disks on Linux

Quite a while ago (and maybe more than once) we had a thread on reading/writing 'odd' disk formats. I thought about it again, typed a few words into google, and found this: http://fdutils.linux.lu/Fdutils.html#SEC22 It looks like setfdprm and superformat will do much of what's necessary in working with 'odd' format disks. I haven't played much with it yet, but I've verified it works for setting the density, heads, cyls, and sect/track of the disk to write to. However, it doesn't allow for setting an initial sector number - something that's necessary for some formats. Using the program "fdrawcmd" should overcome any obsticles, but will require more work to be useful. I just thought I'd pass this along in case people would find it useful. -- "This fucking university has shown time and time again that it is completely fucking incompetent when it comes to employing technology" -- Anonymous http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2040637020924.gif