Dale Dellutri wrote:
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 2:45 PM, mark m.roth@5-cent.us 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?
To debug this, I'd do the following:
- Remove both USB plugs (I assume that these floppies are USB connected)
Wrong assumption. They're on the FD cable to the m/b. I've got some *old* hardware.... <snip>
Of course, it will probably show up at /dev/fd<n>.
Just my pre-tax 2 cents.
I'll tell my wife, who's working on the taxes, to include that as income.... <g>
mark