Re: floppy drives

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On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, David G. Miller wrote:

> mark <m.roth@...> writes:
>
>>
>> On 04/07/13 16:22, Frank Cox wrote:
>>> On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:18:29 -0400
>>> mark wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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....
>>>
>>> Floppy disks have a finite usable life.  Depending on where and how you have
>>> been storing them, they may be shot.
>>>
>> Yeah, but.... I tried three of 'em, three different OEM, and three ages,
>> and they all give me fdisk saying it's not a valid block device.
>>
>> Is it possibly that there's some driver missing?
> Floppy drives also have a limited lifetime.  Are you sure the drive itself
> (not the disk) is good?
>
> I also have a bunch of old floppies and try to keep at least one system with
> a working floppy drive.  I see:
>
> [dave@waste ~]# ls /dev/fd*
> /dev/fd@       /dev/fd0u1120  /dev/fd0u1722  /dev/fd0u1840  /dev/fd0u720
> /dev/fd0u830
> /dev/fd0       /dev/fd0u1440  /dev/fd0u1743  /dev/fd0u1920  /dev/fd0u800
> /dev/fd0u1040  /dev/fd0u1680  /dev/fd0u1760  /dev/fd0u360   /dev/fd0u820
> [dave@waste ~]# ls -l /dev/floppy
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr  3 17:17 /dev/floppy -> fd0
> [dave@waste ~]# lsmod | grep floppy
> floppy                 57125  0
>
> on that system and it reads and writes floppies.

Any chance that we could see your /etc/fstab, at least those lines 
regarding floppies?

Or is that personal?

> Cheers,
> Dave

Max Pyziur
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