Hi, Louis,
Louis Lagendijk wrote:
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 15:45 -0400, mark 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?
Mark, you said that both floppy drives are connected. Could it be that both are wired to fd0? One drive could be malfunctioning.... Try with only one drive connected at a time at the end of the cable and see if that helps...
Good thought... but I think I had one of them disconnected before I took my system down yesterday and connected both. I will note that the 5.25" one's light does seem to stay on, regardless.
I was speaking about it to my manager this morning, and he pulls out a 3.5" USB drive I can borrow, so I'll take my system down, pull the 3.5", and see what I see.
mark