floppy disk write problem

[sharphokie]

I am new to this linux thing. I have successfully installed Red Hat 7.1 and I am using GNOME. I have two questions. The first concerns the floppy disk. There have been a few times when I have used the gui file directory, selected a couple of text files to copy, gone up to file copy, selected the /mnt/fd0/ directory, clicked ok to copy, ejected the disk, placed the disk in my Win 2K system and try to read it and there is nothing on this disk. No the disk is not write-protected. I will then put the disk back in the Linux system and it doesn't see anything on it. Other times it copies things just fine. I am wondering if it some how buffers the files and doesn't immediately right them to the drive. I will press refresh and it doesn't even attempt to reread the drive.

My second totally unrelated question relates to XMMS. I will be playing a playlist of songs off my CD-ROM and the player will just stop. I press play or stop...and it is clearly locked. I do a ps -e and see two XMMS processes and one is defunct. I do a killall -9 xmms. I attempt to restart xmms and it won't restart...What gives?

Thanks to anyone who can attempt to answer these questions!

Chris

[paulb]

I just tried to load a text file created in Linux to print in windows 98. It showed the file created in windows, but not the one in Linux. And I have never had a file come from windows to Linux and not work.

[DJ Jansen]

Okay guys.. i didnt fully read your posts but heres the deal :

To write to a floppy disk under linux you have two options :

Format the floppy for unix/linux and then use it that way.

or

Have a DOS format and use a program to write to the floppy in dos format.

otherwise if you already have the formatted diskette (linux format)

you have to mount the device to read/write.

do this by running

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt

then access in

/mnt

okay.. hope this gets you going in the right direction.

[Linuxcool]

When you're done writing to the disk, try unmounting it and see if that doesn't cause it to finish writing to the disk.