Mark Grieveson wrote: > Has anyone else noticed how awful Linux has become for dealing with > floppies (aka A-drive)? Years ago it was not bad, but now, even > mtoolsfm doesn't seem to work. All of these floppies work in Windows > and/or dos drives. I find this to be the case on various different > computers that are running Linux (Debian) that I've tried. If anyone > has any tips, I'd appreciate it. > > Mark > > I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5" floppies on two different machines, and can't get anywhere with them. I decided to put it on the back burner and read my email when I came across your post.
I've tried cfdisk and fdisk to look at the partition(s) (do these work on floppies?), and mformat, and mkfs.vfat, and fdformat, and all I ever get is something like "could not get geometry of device" or "Problem reading cylinder 0" or "Unable to read /dev/fd0", etc. Very frustrating. It's nice to know it appears to be happening to someone else also. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully <http://kentwest.blogspot.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
