Hi Robin 'n Archan,
I can mount a windows floppy or even an ext2 floppy and read the contents.
but if i try to write to it, it just fails and the disk is usually not
readable after that even in windows. Even the disk that was supposed to be
created as the boot disk during install behaved in the same fashion. If I
try to boot from that disk, it is just ignored and then goes on to boot off
my HD. (obviously the disk is not being recognised as bootable)
Thanks 'n Regards,
Ashley Moore.
Robin Chatterjee
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could this be because linux is using the ext2 filesystem to write to your
floppy in which case you will have to correctly mount the floppy to access
it
and it will not be visible in windows. windows will give a general failure
when
trying to access an ext2 floppy ?
can you boot with your linux bootdisk ?
Ashley Moore/Salmaniya/BatelcoNotes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> HELP !!!
> I'm having a bit of a problem. I hope someone can help me out.
> I have Mandrake 7.0 running on my home computer (AMD K6 III) I canonly
read
> from the floppy drive, but not able to write anything to it. the disk
> becomes unusable after that. The same drive works fine in Win98 and
WinNT.
> I have verified all BIOS settings,etc. Reading info from a disk in the
> drive works well, but writing always fails, right from the time of
> installation when I was prompted to make a boot disk. Has anybody faced
> this problem? I'm still very much a linux newbie.
> Do you need more diagnostic info to pin-point my problem. just lemme
know.
>
> Thanks 'n Regards,
> Ashley Moore - IXD17
> E-Mail System Administrator,
> Batelco, Bahrain.
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