the diskette is not physically damaged I hope ? i.e you can reformat the disk in
windows and use it ?
and this is a standard floppy drive (make/model) ?
Cheerio
Robin
Ashley Moore wrote:
> 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
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> > Batelco, Bahrain.
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