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:
1. Remove both USB plugs (I assume that these floppies are USB connected) 2. Reboot 3. Plug just one in, then do lsusb and get the end of /var/log/messages One of these might tell you where the floppy is connected in /dev. It might not be /dev/fd0 4. If it doesn't show up immediately, try putting in a floppy disk and do 3 again. 5. If it doesn't show up again, then it's probably dead. 6. If it does show, perhaps at /dev/sdb1, then create a file .mtoolsrc: # USB drive drive u: file="/dev/sdb1" Then do mdir u:
Of course, it will probably show up at /dev/fd<n>.
Just my pre-tax 2 cents.