I'm trying to set up a headless machine I can download floppy images to, and then write them to disk using dd or equivalent. I was planning to use a Beige G3 for this, since I figured it probably has the widest variety of OS choices. Do any of the various NIXes out there (NetBSD, Linux, Rhapsody, OSX, etc) support the built-in floppy drive? I saw a mention that some SWIM controllers were supported in Linux, but no more information. Also, this is a longshot, but do any of them support writing 800k disks?
If there's nothing, then I guess I'll have to settle with a VNC server running on OS9.
If there's nothing, then I guess I'll have to settle with a VNC server running on OS9.