> Am 2006-11-10 10:35:58, schrieb Matus UHLAR - fantomas:
> > and if this helps, you should probably install udev (and hotplug) to have
> > such things done automatically whenever you try to access floppy disk.
On 19.11.06 03:47, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> While you are talking about...
>
> HOW do
Am 2006-11-10 10:35:58, schrieb Matus UHLAR - fantomas:
> and if this helps, you should probably install udev (and hotplug) to have
> such things done automatically whenever you try to access floppy disk.
While you are talking about...
HOW do you prevent discover, hotplug and udev to load 107 Mod
Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2006-10-28 17:47:55, schrieb Kent West:
>
>
>> I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5" floppies on two
>> different machines, and can't get anywhere with them. I decided to put
>> it on the back burner and read my email when I came across your post.
>>
>>
> Am 2006-10-28 17:47:55, schrieb Kent West:
> > I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5" floppies on two
> > different machines, and can't get anywhere with them. I decided to put
> > it on the back burner and read my email when I came across your post.
> >
> > I've tried cfdisk and fdi
Am 2006-10-28 17:47:55, schrieb Kent West:
> I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5" floppies on two
> different machines, and can't get anywhere with them. I decided to put
> it on the back burner and read my email when I came across your post.
>
> I've tried cfdisk and fdisk to look
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:34:14AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Also, everything I was able to find via Google and a specific
> instruction on this list mentioned using "fdformat -n ...fd0u1440" or
> "...fd0H1440". Whereas the man page for fdformat does indeed mention
> using setfdprm, it says it in t
Kent West wrote:
> That's nuts! I made this change also, and now superformat worked without
> complaining, and the one floppy I've tried (which previously I could not
> format to save my life) seems to be working fine. Even though I was
> telling some of the utilities I was trying to use what file
Hi Doug. I just noticed your answer in the Debian forum archives to my
question about floppies on the mailing list (I must have missed the
response in email). Anyway, thanks, that's helpful.
Mark
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Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This thread got me to wondering about my own floppies, which I have
> not checked in some time. I tried to access several floppies, all
> unsuccessfully.
I OTOH just mounted successfully some floppies that were made about
fifteen years ago.
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Zbigniew Wiech wrote:
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* * * but instead are given the following lecture: "mount: i could not
determine the filesystem type, and none was specified". The answer, of
course, is,
"it's a floppy, you stupid machine.
"Floppy" is not the name of a file system, and more than one file system
ha
Mark Grieveson wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, that seems to help. Perhaps having it on "auto" sets up a >
>> Catch-22, wherein a floppy that needs to be formatted cannot be due
>> to > the requirement of the program having to determine the file
>> system first > (which requires that it be formatted). Or ma
Thanks, that seems to help. Perhaps having it on "auto" sets up a
> Catch-22, wherein a floppy that needs to be formatted cannot be due to
> the requirement of the program having to determine the file system first
> (which requires that it be formatted). Or maybe not. Anyway, I've had
> be
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 07:43:24PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:01:54PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> [snip]
> > You shouldn't have to mount a floppy if you're going to fo
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> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:01:54PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
[snip]
> You shouldn't have to mount a floppy if you're going to format it.
In fact, you *can't* mkfs a mounted partition, can you?
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:01:54PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> >* * * but instead are given the following lecture: "mount: i could
> >not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified". The
> >answer, of course, is,
> >"it's a floppy, you stupid machine.
> >Mark
> >"
> >
> >Change f
Mark Grieveson wrote:
* * * but instead are given the following lecture: "mount: i could
not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified". The
answer, of course, is,
"it's a floppy, you stupid machine.
Mark
"
Change file type of "/dev/fd0" line in /etc/fstab from "auto" to "vfat"
Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
But the best advice is just avoid floppy disks if you
possibly can. Fry's has a 1 GB USB flash drive for US$15
after the rebate. That's 700 floppies' worth and it fits
on your keyring. They had a 128 MB drive for three bucks.
Floppies are obsolete.
I saw one Fry's
* * * but instead are given the following lecture: "mount: i could
not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified". The
answer, of course, is,
"it's a floppy, you stupid machine.
Mark
"
Change file type of "/dev/fd0" line in /etc/fstab from "auto" to "vfat"
I had the same problem
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On 10/31/06 01:31, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Grieveson wrote:
[snip]
> But the best advice is just avoid floppy disks if you
> possibly can. Fry's has a
"
* * * but instead are given the following lecture:
"mount: i could not determine the filesystem type, and none
was specified". The answer, of course, is,
"it's a floppy, you stupid machine.
Mark
"
Change file type of "/dev/fd0" line in /etc/fstab
from "auto" to "vfat"
I had the same problem
On 30.10.06 11:45, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> I've been following this thread with interest, since I was the one who
> initially expressed his exasperation over Linux coughing up floppies
> like so much sour milk.
>
> Anyway, I finally did find a floppy that was actually mounted by my
> system (of
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Grieveson wrote:
>> I did try to use superformat. It seemed to do the low level format
>> OK, but then it got to running mformat and the drive just made a whole
>> lot of noise and eventually gave me t
I did try to use superformat. It seemed to do the low level format
OK, but then it got to running mformat and the drive just made a whole
lot of noise and eventually gave me the following error:
This is exactly what happens with me as well.
Mark
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Marc Wilson wrote:
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:08:53PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
sudo fdformat -n /dev/.static/dev/fd0u1440
I have to wonder how you came up with that, vs reading the man page for
fdformat(8). That tells you to use setfdprm(8) to set the parameters of the
generic device
I've been following this thread with interest, since I was the one who
initially expressed his exasperation over Linux coughing up floppies
like so much sour milk.
Anyway, I finally did find a floppy that was actually mounted by my
system (of course, later, my computer rejected it as not worth
Marc Wilson wrote:
> Further, why wouldn't you just use superformat(1)?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> sudo superformat /dev/fd0 hd
Password:
Measuring drive 0's raw capacity
In order to avoid this time consuming measurement in the future,
add the following line to /etc/driveprm:
drive0: deviation=
Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:08:53PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
>
>> sudo fdformat -n /dev/.static/dev/fd0u1440
>>
>
> I have to wonder how you came up with that, vs reading the man page for
> fdformat(8).
Because the man page for fdformat only mentions the /dev/fd* paths,
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:08:53PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> sudo fdformat -n /dev/.static/dev/fd0u1440
I have to wonder how you came up with that, vs reading the man page for
fdformat(8). That tells you to use setfdprm(8) to set the parameters of the
generic device before trying to use it.
Furt
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:39:07PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
> So I'm leaning toward two bad floppy drives in two machines within my
> house. I'll know more when I can try these floppies in a third and maybe
> fourth Debian box at work tomorrow.
It could be just dirty heads. Yo
Kent West wrote:
> Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
>
>> Try scraping the mold off with a couple of
>> fdformat -n /dev/fd0u1440
>>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> sudo fdformat -n /dev/fd0u1440
> /dev/fd0u1440: No such file or directory
>
>
> Hmm; apparently udev makes this command slightly
Kent West wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
>
>> I'm going to try another couple of
>> floppies, and via Knoppix.
>>
>>
>
> I just tried yet another floppy, and although it looked like it
> formatted properly, and I was able to copy a few files to it and read
> those files from it, I then did th
Kent West wrote:
> I'm going to try another couple of
> floppies, and via Knoppix.
>
I just tried yet another floppy, and although it looked like it
formatted properly, and I was able to copy a few files to it and read
those files from it, I then did the verify thing again:
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On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 06:42:33PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> > /dev/fd0/floppyautouser,noauto00
> > Its the 'auto' that's the problem.
> > Try mounting it manually to determine what types to put
> > here.
>
> You mean like:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> sudo mount -t vf
Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
> Could be the media.
>
> Try scraping the mold off with a couple of
> fdformat -n /dev/fd0u1440
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> sudo fdformat -n /dev/fd0u1440
/dev/fd0u1440: No such file or directory
Hmm; apparently udev makes this command slightly obsolete now
Douglas Tutty wrote:
> If you look in your /etc/fstab for the entry under floppy, you'll
> probably see something like:
>
> /dev/fd0/floppyautouser,noauto00
>
> Its the 'auto' that's the problem.
>
> Try mounting it manually to determine what types to put
> here.
>
You
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kent West wrote:
> I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5" floppies on two
> different machines, and can't get anywhere with them. I decided to put
> it on the back burner and read my email when I c
OK. I just put floppies in my drive, doubleclicked the desktop icon, had them
mount and display their contents. No problems at all. I have never had any
problems with them.
These were formatted in Windows or DOS a while back. One is a Win98 boot
floppy which I used very well in Qemu to install
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:17:45AM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> >
> >Mark Grieveson wrote:
> >
> Has anyone else noticed how awful Linux has become for dealing with
> floppies (aka A-drive)? Years ago it was not bad, but now, even
> mtoolsfm doesn't seem to work. . .
> Mar
Mark Grieveson wrote:
>> Has anyone else noticed how awful Linux has become for dealing with
>> floppies (aka A-drive)? Years ago it was not bad, but now, even
>> mtoolsfm doesn't seem to work. . .
>> Mark
>>
>>
> I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5" floppies on two
> d
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 10/28/06 17:47, Kent West wrote:
> >> Mark Grieveson wrote:
> >>> Has anyone else noticed how awful Linux has become for dealing with
> >>> floppies (aka A-drive)?
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5" floppies on two
> >> different machines, an
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> Mark Grieveson wrote:
>> Has anyone else noticed how awful Linux has become for dealing with
>> floppies (aka A-drive)? Years ago it was not bad, but now, even
>> mtoolsfm doesn't seem to work. All of these flopp
Mark Grieveson wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed how awful Linux has become for dealing with
> floppies (aka A-drive)? Years ago it was not bad, but now, even
> mtoolsfm doesn't seem to work. All of these floppies work in Windows
> and/or dos drives. I find this to be the case on various differen
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On 10/28/06 13:29, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed how awful Linux has become for dealing with
> floppies (aka A-drive)? Years ago it was not bad, but now, even
> mtoolsfm doesn't seem to work. All of these floppies work in Windows
>
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