* From: peasth...@shaw.ca
* Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:56:47 -0800
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* From: Jude DaShiell
* Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:59:35 -0400 (EDT)
> Why not download mtools and then try mdir a:/ and then try man mtools?
> Even if floppy disks were inserted after booting I've been able to
> access them using mtools in the past.
Thanks I'll try it, ...
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:56:47 -0800, Peter Easthope wrote:
> Bob, Camaleon, Dom, Stephen, Tom & others,
>
> I am replying to the last message I found in the thread. If there
> is one later, I didn't ignore it deliberately.
>
> * From: Stephen Powell
> * Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 22:21:13 -0
Why not download mtools and then try mdir a:/ and then try man mtools?
Even if floppy disks were inserted after booting I've been able to
access them using mtools in the past.
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> Bob, Camaleon, Dom, Stephen, Tom & others,
>
> I am replying to the l
Bob, Camaleon, Dom, Stephen, Tom & others,
I am replying to the last message I found in the thread. If there
is one later, I didn't ignore it deliberately.
* From: Stephen Powell
* Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 22:21:13 -0500 (EST)
> No, the data is intact, as the mounting of the image fil
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 22:28:52 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>>> ...
>>> I have been able to circumvent the problem
>>> by commenting out the following entries in /etc/fstab and rebooting:
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 22:28:52 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> ...
>> I have been able to circumvent the problem
>> by commenting out the following entries in /etc/fstab and rebooting:
>>
>> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:11:40 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote:
>>
>> I don't know. My computer does not have a USB floppy drive, that's true.
>> It is a traditional AT-style floppy disk controller with two floppy
>> drives. And I can no l
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:11:40 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote:
>
> I don't know. My computer does not have a USB floppy drive, that's true.
> It is a traditional AT-style floppy disk controller with two floppy
> drives. And I can no longer reproduce the problem. Having a floppy
> disk in the d
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:35:25 -0500 (EST), Dom wrote:
>
> Found the culprit. It's udisks-daemon and appears to be this bug:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=592719
> "udisks prevents mounting of floppy disks".
>
> Killing the udisks-daemon enabled mounting of the drive.
>
> Howe
On 07/12/10 14:38, Dom wrote:
On 06/12/10 11:46, Dom wrote:
On 06/12/10 11:34, Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:27:48 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:09:52 -0500 (EST), Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:07:20 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
Well, I'm not exactly
On 06/12/10 11:46, Dom wrote:
On 06/12/10 11:34, Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:27:48 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:09:52 -0500 (EST), Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:07:20 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
Well, I'm not exactly a newbie. I've been using Linux
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 21:26:06 -0500 (EST), Bob Proulx wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>>mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /media/floppy1
>> ...
>> It tells me that /media/floppy1 is not mounted! When I try to read the data
>> directly with
>>dd if=/dev/fd1 of=erase.me count=1
>> It successfully reads
On 06/12/10 11:34, Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:27:48 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:09:52 -0500 (EST), Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:07:20 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
Well, I'm not exactly a newbie. I've been using Linux for more th
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:27:48 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:09:52 -0500 (EST), Camaleón wrote:
>> On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:07:20 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
>>> Well, I'm not exactly a newbie. I've been using Linux for more than
>>> 10 years. But I must be doing something wr
Dne, 06. 12. 2010 06:39:16 je Doug napisal(a):
OTOH, I've heard stories about short lifetimes of
homebrewed CDs also. At the moment, I believe even professionals
and governments are having trouble trying to find a long-lasting
medium
for preserving data over decades and maybe centuries. The
On 12/05/2010 09:26 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
Stephen Powell wrote:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /media/floppy1
...
It tells me that /media/floppy1 is not mounted! When I try to read the data
directly with
dd if=/dev/fd1 of=erase.me count=1
It successfully reads the boot sector into the file era
Stephen Powell wrote:
>mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /media/floppy1
> ...
> It tells me that /media/floppy1 is not mounted! When I try to read the data
> directly with
>dd if=/dev/fd1 of=erase.me count=1
> It successfully reads the boot sector into the file erase.me; so the
> drive and the disk
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:09:52 -0500 (EST), Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:07:20 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> Well, I'm not exactly a newbie. I've been using Linux for more than 10
>> years. But I must be doing something wrong. I can't seem to get a
>> floppy disk to mount.
>> ...
>
>
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:07:20 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
> Well, I'm not exactly a newbie. I've been using Linux for more than 10
> years. But I must be doing something wrong. I can't seem to get a
> floppy disk to mount.
(...)
Weird :-?
I would try with the simplest command:
mount /dev/fd0
Well, I'm not exactly a newbie. I've been using Linux for more than 10 years.
But I must be doing something wrong. I can't seem to get a floppy disk to
mount.
My i386 system has a standard floppy disk controller with two floppy drives:
a 3.5-inch high density drive (1.44M in DOS format) and a 5.
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