The floppy won't even refoprmat.  Also, putting a never used floppy in 
that drive and attempting to format it fails as well.

On Sun, 17 Jun 2012, keith wrote:

> On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 09:49 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > I think the floppy in this machine is defective.  The information on bsd 
> > wasn't useful in fact, as root I was prevented from changing permissions 
> > on the /dev/fd0 device.
> Looks like the FAT is corrupt. If the data is important to you, try
> gddrescue, then attempt to loop mount the image. If that fails, I think
> you will have lost your data, & will just have to try re formatting the
> disk. 
> 
> 
> 

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