On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:59:52 PM Paul Hartman wrote:
For some reason, when I mount floppy disk (standard HD 3.5 VFAT disk)
it does nothing. No error, just nothing... I have not tried this in
well over a year, but it used to work.
The /dev/fd0 device works normally, I can access it
[gentoo-user] Mounting floppy disks:
For some reason, when I mount floppy disk (standard HD 3.5 VFAT disk)
Floppies are normally formatted as FAT12, not VFAT.
Eh. I've seen FAT16 and FAT32 on 1.44MB floppies.
Anyway, Paul should try
file -s /dev/fd0
and
mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:59:52 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote about
[gentoo-user] Mounting floppy disks:
For some reason, when I mount floppy disk (standard HD 3.5 VFAT disk)
Floppies are normally formatted as FAT12, not VFAT.
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Regards,
Dave [RLU #314465
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:54 AM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote:
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:59:52 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote about
[gentoo-user] Mounting floppy disks:
For some reason, when I mount floppy disk (standard HD 3.5 VFAT disk)
Floppies are normally formatted as FAT12, not VFAT
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:54 AM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote:
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:59:52 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote about
[gentoo-user] Mounting floppy disks:
For some reason, when I mount floppy disk (standard
For some reason, when I mount floppy disk (standard HD 3.5 VFAT disk)
it does nothing. No error, just nothing... I have not tried this in
well over a year, but it used to work.
The /dev/fd0 device works normally, I can access it with mtools and
use dd and even access disks in virtual machines
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