> Am 2006-10-28 17:47:55, schrieb Kent West: > > 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.
On 09.11.06 15:08, Michelle Konzack wrote: > modprobe floppy and if this helps, you should probably install udev (and hotplug) to have such things done automatically whenever you try to access floppy disk. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. "To Boot or not to Boot, that's the question." [WD1270 Caviar] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
