Wondering if anyone has any experience/insight with this. I have some old (1989-91-ish) 3.5" floppy disks that I want to archive the data from, and a TEAC 1.44 MB drive (actually 2 of them). The PC is a homebrew with a Gigabyte H55-USB3 mainboard and older Intel i3 CPU. The floppy interface is enabled in BIOS settings.
As you may have guessed it's not working. With either "mdir" or "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" the drive LED comes on for a few seconds and then a message indicating /dev/fd0 does not exist (not true), and this reported from dmesg: > [ 138.845258] floppy0: probe failed... > [ 139.243808] floppy0: probe failed... > etc... > [ 144.821238] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 > [ 144.821245] floppy: error -5 while reading block 0 /dev includes this: brw-rw---- 1 root disk 2, 0 Aug 2 12:22 fd0 Any thoughts? I've tried 2 different drives, 2 cables, and 3 diskettes. I'm pretty sure the cable positioning is right. Rod _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech