Re: Strange floppy

1998-08-09 Thread Shiraz Sayani
[Maybe off-topic alert] [Maybe repeat alert - I sent this before, but didn't see it] I have a floppy disk I am trying to make a copy of as a backup. It's a Yamaha disklavier disk and fits in a standard 1.44MB floppy drive, but Windows doesn't think its formatted. I thought I'd try copying it on m

Re: Strange floppy

1998-08-04 Thread Ian Eure
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 11:47:09PM +0200, Shiraz Sayani wrote: > [Maybe off-topic alert] > > I have a floppy disk I am trying to make a copy of as a backup. > It's a Yamaha disklavier disk and fits in a standard 1.44MB > floppy drive, but Windows doesn't think its formatted. > > I thought I'd try

Strange floppy

1998-08-03 Thread Shiraz Sayani
[Maybe off-topic alert] I have a floppy disk I am trying to make a copy of as a backup. It's a Yamaha disklavier disk and fits in a standard 1.44MB floppy drive, but Windows doesn't think its formatted. I thought I'd try copying it on my Debian 2.0 box with something like dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/

URGENT: strange floppy behaviour

1997-11-19 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I tried to mount my floppy, the mount failed. I had to press CTRL-C a number of times to get apropmpt and got the following messages in syslog Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: floppy driver state Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: --- Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: now=359