On 04/07/13 17:11, Brian Miller wrote:
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 16:43 -0400, mark wrote:
On 04/07/13 16:22, Frank Cox wrote:
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.
If they were all written with the same drive it's also possible the head alignment had drifted which will make things...interesting.
Try formatting a scratch floppy to see if you can write. If that works but you still can't read, evidence that it's indeed an alignment mismatch.
These are many years of disks, written on many machines.
At any rate, I just tried mformat a:, and it tells me that it can't open /dev/fd0: No such device or address.
mark