Running Linux on an IBM PC, what could more interesting than being able to
read/write MS-DOS diskettes directly?

Having not much knowledge about UNIX devices I tried to port "mtools", a PD
collection of MS-DOS read/write-tools for Unix. It compiled well, but didn't
work, obviously, because it requires a raw disk device instead of a block
disk device. A driver for this seems to be missing from the Linux kernel.

I am not able to write this driver, but would be very thankful if someone
could tell me whether I did something wrong, or would write it (it can't be
difficult for one of those experiences Unix hackers...).

Thank you.

Peter (qed@cs.tu-berlin.de)