Am 2006-11-10 10:35:58, schrieb Matus UHLAR - fantomas:
and if this helps, you should probably install udev (and hotplug) to have
such things done automatically whenever you try to access floppy disk.
While you are talking about...
HOW do you prevent discover, hotplug and udev to load 107
Am 2006-11-10 10:35:58, schrieb Matus UHLAR - fantomas:
and if this helps, you should probably install udev (and hotplug) to have
such things done automatically whenever you try to access floppy disk.
On 19.11.06 03:47, Michelle Konzack wrote:
While you are talking about...
HOW do you
Am 2006-10-28 17:47:55, schrieb Kent West:
I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5 floppies on two
different machines, and can't get anywhere with them. I decided to put
it on the back burner and read my email when I came across your post.
I've tried cfdisk and fdisk to look
Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2006-10-28 17:47:55, schrieb Kent West:
I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5 floppies on two
different machines, and can't get anywhere with them. I decided to put
it on the back burner and read my email when I came across your post.
I've tried
Am 2006-10-28 17:47:55, schrieb Kent West:
I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5 floppies on two
different machines, and can't get anywhere with them. I decided to put
it on the back burner and read my email when I came across your post.
I've tried cfdisk and fdisk to look at
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:34:14AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Also, everything I was able to find via Google and a specific
instruction on this list mentioned using fdformat -n ...fd0u1440 or
...fd0H1440. Whereas the man page for fdformat does indeed mention
using setfdprm, it says it in this
Kent West wrote:
That's nuts! I made this change also, and now superformat worked without
complaining, and the one floppy I've tried (which previously I could not
format to save my life) seems to be working fine. Even though I was
telling some of the utilities I was trying to use what
Hi Doug. I just noticed your answer in the Debian forum archives to my
question about floppies on the mailing list (I must have missed the
response in email). Anyway, thanks, that's helpful.
Mark
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Zbigniew Wiech wrote:
* * * but instead are given the following lecture: mount: i could not
determine the filesystem type, and none was specified. The answer, of
course, is,
it's a floppy, you stupid machine.
Floppy is not the name of a file system, and more than one file system
has
Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This thread got me to wondering about my own floppies, which I have
not checked in some time. I tried to access several floppies, all
unsuccessfully.
I OTOH just mounted successfully some floppies that were made about
fifteen years ago.
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On 30.10.06 11:45, Mark Grieveson wrote:
I've been following this thread with interest, since I was the one who
initially expressed his exasperation over Linux coughing up floppies
like so much sour milk.
Anyway, I finally did find a floppy that was actually mounted by my
system (of
* * * but instead are given the following lecture:
mount: i could not determine the filesystem type, and none
was specified. The answer, of course, is,
it's a floppy, you stupid machine.
Mark
Change file type of /dev/fd0 line in /etc/fstab
from auto to vfat
I had the same problem and it
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[snip]
But the best advice is just avoid floppy disks if you
possibly can. Fry's has a 1 GB
* * * but instead are given the following lecture: mount: i could
not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified. The
answer, of course, is,
it's a floppy, you stupid machine.
Mark
Change file type of /dev/fd0 line in /etc/fstab from auto to vfat
I had the same problem and it
Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
But the best advice is just avoid floppy disks if you
possibly can. Fry's has a 1 GB USB flash drive for US$15
after the rebate. That's 700 floppies' worth and it fits
on your keyring. They had a 128 MB drive for three bucks.
Floppies are obsolete.
I saw one
Mark Grieveson wrote:
* * * but instead are given the following lecture: mount: i could
not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified. The
answer, of course, is,
it's a floppy, you stupid machine.
Mark
Change file type of /dev/fd0 line in /etc/fstab from auto to vfat
I had
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:01:54PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
* * * but instead are given the following lecture: mount: i could
not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified. The
answer, of course, is,
it's a floppy, you stupid machine.
Mark
Change file type of
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On 10/31/06 19:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:01:54PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
[snip]
You shouldn't have to mount a floppy if you're going to format it.
In fact, you *can't* mkfs a mounted partition, can you?
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 07:43:24PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 10/31/06 19:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:01:54PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
[snip]
You shouldn't have to mount a floppy if you're going to format it.
Thanks, that seems to help. Perhaps having it on auto sets up a
Catch-22, wherein a floppy that needs to be formatted cannot be due to
the requirement of the program having to determine the file system first
(which requires that it be formatted). Or maybe not. Anyway, I've had
better
Mark Grieveson wrote:
Thanks, that seems to help. Perhaps having it on auto sets up a
Catch-22, wherein a floppy that needs to be formatted cannot be due
to the requirement of the program having to determine the file
system first (which requires that it be formatted). Or maybe not.
Marc Wilson wrote:
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:08:53PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
sudo fdformat -n /dev/.static/dev/fd0u1440
I have to wonder how you came up with that, vs reading the man page for
fdformat(8).
Because the man page for fdformat only mentions the /dev/fd* paths, but
such
Marc Wilson wrote:
Further, why wouldn't you just use superformat(1)?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk sudo superformat /dev/fd0 hd
Password:
Measuring drive 0's raw capacity
In order to avoid this time consuming measurement in the future,
add the following line to /etc/driveprm:
drive0:
I've been following this thread with interest, since I was the one who
initially expressed his exasperation over Linux coughing up floppies
like so much sour milk.
Anyway, I finally did find a floppy that was actually mounted by my
system (of course, later, my computer rejected it as not
Marc Wilson wrote:
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:08:53PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
sudo fdformat -n /dev/.static/dev/fd0u1440
I have to wonder how you came up with that, vs reading the man page for
fdformat(8). That tells you to use setfdprm(8) to set the parameters of the
generic device
I did try to use superformat. It seemed to do the low level format
OK, but then it got to running mformat and the drive just made a whole
lot of noise and eventually gave me the following error:
This is exactly what happens with me as well.
Mark
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Grieveson wrote:
I did try to use superformat. It seemed to do the low level format
OK, but then it got to running mformat and the drive just made a whole
lot of noise and eventually gave me the
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:17:45AM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote:
Mark Grieveson wrote:
Has anyone else noticed how awful Linux has become for dealing with
floppies (aka A-drive)? Years ago it was not bad, but now, even
mtoolsfm doesn't seem to work. . .
Mark
It's
OK. I just put floppies in my drive, doubleclicked the desktop icon, had them
mount and display their contents. No problems at all. I have never had any
problems with them.
These were formatted in Windows or DOS a while back. One is a Win98 boot
floppy which I used very well in Qemu to install
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kent West wrote:
I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5 floppies on two
different machines, and can't get anywhere with them. I decided to put
it on the back burner and read my email when I came
Douglas Tutty wrote:
If you look in your /etc/fstab for the entry under floppy, you'll
probably see something like:
/dev/fd0/floppyautouser,noauto00
Its the 'auto' that's the problem.
Try mounting it manually to determine what types to put
here.
You mean
Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
Could be the media.
Try scraping the mold off with a couple of
fdformat -n /dev/fd0u1440
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk sudo fdformat -n /dev/fd0u1440
/dev/fd0u1440: No such file or directory
Hmm; apparently udev makes this command slightly obsolete now
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 06:42:33PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
/dev/fd0/floppyautouser,noauto00
Its the 'auto' that's the problem.
Try mounting it manually to determine what types to put
here.
You mean like:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk sudo mount -t vfat /dev/fd0
Kent West wrote:
I'm going to try another couple of
floppies, and via Knoppix.
I just tried yet another floppy, and although it looked like it
formatted properly, and I was able to copy a few files to it and read
those files from it, I then did the verify thing again:
[EMAIL
Kent West wrote:
Kent West wrote:
I'm going to try another couple of
floppies, and via Knoppix.
I just tried yet another floppy, and although it looked like it
formatted properly, and I was able to copy a few files to it and read
those files from it, I then did the verify
Kent West wrote:
Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
Try scraping the mold off with a couple of
fdformat -n /dev/fd0u1440
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk sudo fdformat -n /dev/fd0u1440
/dev/fd0u1440: No such file or directory
Hmm; apparently udev makes this command slightly obsolete now
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:39:07PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Kent West wrote:
So I'm leaning toward two bad floppy drives in two machines within my
house. I'll know more when I can try these floppies in a third and maybe
fourth Debian box at work tomorrow.
It could be just dirty heads. You
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:08:53PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
sudo fdformat -n /dev/.static/dev/fd0u1440
I have to wonder how you came up with that, vs reading the man page for
fdformat(8). That tells you to use setfdprm(8) to set the parameters of the
generic device before trying to use it.
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On 10/28/06 13:29, Mark Grieveson wrote:
Has anyone else noticed how awful Linux has become for dealing with
floppies (aka A-drive)? Years ago it was not bad, but now, even
mtoolsfm doesn't seem to work. All of these floppies work in Windows
Mark Grieveson wrote:
Has anyone else noticed how awful Linux has become for dealing with
floppies (aka A-drive)? Years ago it was not bad, but now, even
mtoolsfm doesn't seem to work. All of these floppies work in Windows
and/or dos drives. I find this to be the case on various different
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On 10/28/06 17:47, Kent West wrote:
Mark Grieveson wrote:
Has anyone else noticed how awful Linux has become for dealing with
floppies (aka A-drive)? Years ago it was not bad, but now, even
mtoolsfm doesn't seem to work. All of these floppies
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 10/28/06 17:47, Kent West wrote:
Mark Grieveson wrote:
Has anyone else noticed how awful Linux has become for dealing with
floppies (aka A-drive)?
I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5 floppies on two
different machines, and can't get anywhere with
Mark Grieveson wrote:
Has anyone else noticed how awful Linux has become for dealing with
floppies (aka A-drive)? Years ago it was not bad, but now, even
mtoolsfm doesn't seem to work. . .
Mark
I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5 floppies on two
different
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