On 04/07/13 16:04, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 2:45 PM, mark <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Yes, really. I've got hundreds of the damn things here at home, and I
>> want to go through them and get rid of them all.
>>
>> But... to do that I want to read them. I have both a 5.25" and a 3.5"
>> drive, both are plugged in, but in the BIOS, all I see is the 3.5".
>> Fine, I figure I'll take care of those.
>>
>> Nope. I see /dev/fd0 once I've booted up, but neither konqueror nor
>> mount nor fdisk works - the latter telling me that /dev/fd0 is not a
>> valid block device. After some googling, I tried modprobe floppy, which
>> installed it, but still no joy.
>>
>> Anyone have a clue?
>
> What file system is on them? Or did you do something like raw tar
> writes to them? If it is typical dos/window FAT, try the programs
> from the mtools package. mdir, mcopy, etc. I hate to fight with
> stuff like that so I'd probably use a windows box connected to a samba
> share to move things over.
All of 'em are old DOS. Just tried mdir a:, and the same: can't open,
can't initials A:. I really doubt the drives themselves are dead, but....
mark
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