On Sunday 29 Jan 2012 19:09:59 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > <SNIP> > > > I'm going to try to talk him into letting my transfer them to CD. Tell > > him it is time to catch up with new and better things. CD drives has > > autodetect and just plain work better anyway. > > > > At least I know there is a chance. ;-) > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > A single USB thumb drive for $20 would likely hold every floppy he > ever made, and maybe 10-20 times more. Why waste time making & sorting > through CDs, etc?
I'm coming to this late, but floppies should just work⢠and show up under /dev/fd0 or /dev/floppy. I've got an old laptop which has a bay for CDROM or floppy and was able to access a floppy only a couple of months ago. With fluxbox and no automounting I had to run pmount or mount (can't recall now). The only historical problem I recall is when running grub prompt at grub installation time which could spend an inordinate amount of time probing the floppy (using --no-floppy sorts this out). -- Regards, Mick
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