Dale Dellutri 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? > > > To debug this, I'd do the following: > > 1. 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