Feigning erudition, dep wrote: % begin Tony Alfrey's quote: % | Sorry about the off-topic question, but my wife will be grateful % | for possible help. % | My wife has a conventional 3 1/2" floppy that she formatted eons % | ago on an old Compaq computer. She says % | a) the old Compaq would read floppies formatted on an IBM PC. % | b) floppies formatted on her Compaq could not be read on other PCs. % | % | Sounds to me like a poorly-aligned floppy drive but maybe it's % | something more subtle. % | My box says it can't recognize the file system on the floppy (when % | using the 'auto' option in the mount command). Is there any % | possibility that the old Compaq had some wierd file system for % | floppies (obviously a question for the old farts among the list % | ;-) ). % | Thanks very much! % % is it a 720k floppy? eons ago, those were the 3.5 floppies.
Hey, there's a thought: dd if=/dev/fd0u720 of=/blah/blarg Kurt -- You can't carve your way to success without cutting remarks. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
