Depending on the operation system you might have to activate floppy support first. Ubuntu can automount floppys after the support is activated. Works for both internal and USB type floppy drives. All old disks work very well...
Viele Grüsse ~ Kind Regards Chris Cramer, B.Sc. ~ Sent from my mobile phone ~ On 17.04.2013, at 15:19, Cowboy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 17 April 2013 09:01:30 am Alan Peterson wrote: >> So far the web has been of no use to me; is there a way to read old >> (Win95,98) floppy diskettes under Linux? I have a considerable amount of >> material (old Radio World articles, MIDI compositions etc) that I want >> converted to a more modern storage format. >> >> Stuffing them into a WinXP or Win2K box results in a request to reformat the >> disk, and I definitely don't want that. > > Yes, absolutely ! ( if the data is still there ) > > Firstly, I'm surprised XP won't read them ! > > If they have a file system ( "format" in Micro$oft parlance ) they should > mount. > mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat,msdos,ntfs /mnt/floppy > should either mount it, or produce an error that the file system type is not > understood by the kernel. > ( vfat is the "long file name" Micro$oft work-a-round patch on the msdos FAT > system ) > If that fails, then you'd need to know why, or you need me. :) > > -- > Cowboy > > http://cowboy.cwf1.com > > Moon, n.: > 1. A celestial object whose phase is very important to > hackers. See PHASE OF THE MOON. 2. Dave Moon (MOON@MC). > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
