On 04/07/13 16:04, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 2:45 PM, mark <m.roth at 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? > > What file system is on them? Or did you do something like raw tar > writes to them? If it is typical dos/window FAT, try the programs > from the mtools package. mdir, mcopy, etc. I hate to fight with > stuff like that so I'd probably use a windows box connected to a samba > share to move things over. All of 'em are old DOS. Just tried mdir a:, and the same: can't open, can't initials A:. I really doubt the drives themselves are dead, but.... mark -- "UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT information is ENCOURAGED!" - Robert McElwain, Net.kook