On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:21:10PM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Frank Cox wrote:
On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 10:19:33 -0400 m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Hmmm... didn't see it mounted, but I'll try more tonight. Last night included a) playing with system, and b) finishing up our federal taxes....
If you're going to use mtools to do your copying, you don't need to mount the disks.
mtools is a desperation move, since I haven't actually read anything from anything yet. As I mentioned, I *may* have an old drive head cleaner somewhere - since it's not been used in about a decade, I'm thinking of corrosion or crud.
I also can't seem to find the USB 3.5" drive I borrowed - lsusb sees it (at least since the last reboot), but trying to find it to mount it is something I'm still digging at, and I doubt mtools can find it.
mark
As far as I remember (I'm not as young as I used to be, and it's been a while), the 3.5" USB floppy drive here would recognize a (formatted) floppy when inserted and mount it automatically, on Centos 5.x. (assuming it contained a recognizable filesystem...)
now that I"m running 6.4, I haven't tried the floppy drive yet.
(I have piles and stacks and drawers of 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppies with various stuff stored on 'em. I used that usb drive (and an internal 5.25 inch drive) to grab images of all of them (with dd) which I'll eventually organize and burn onto CD or DVD, so I can get rid of all the floppies.)
Fred