-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/28/06 17:47, Kent West wrote: > 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.
What kernel? Debian binary or home-rolled? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFRA9GS9HxQb37XmcRAu05AJ4w1X4BIeoAoXJloTbopLlw4TNoCwCfSgr9 zzNxrhM80FXJPbO+6nTYk8k= =/sLQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
