Thanks for the reply. But never mind, it works with some diskettes but not others. Evidently some floppies do not last 27 years... who knew. :)
Rod On 08/02/2017 01:43 PM, John Reed wrote: > I was able to use a floppy drive on Ubuntu 14 last year. Don't know if > that helps. > > John > > > > On Aug 2, 2017 12:53 PM, "Rod Roark" <r...@sunsetsystems.com > <mailto:r...@sunsetsystems.com>> wrote: > > 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 <mailto:vox-tech@lists.lugod.org> > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > <http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech