Michelle Konzack wrote: > 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. >> > > modprobe floppy >
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> lsmod | grep floppy floppy 54788 0 I'm fairly confident I've got two different boxes having faulty floppy drives (although that seems a bit suspicious). I haven't gotten back around to pursuing the issue to be certain; I've put it on the back-burner. Thanks, though! -- Kent West Westing Peacefully <http://kentwest.blogspot.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
