babyboss
11-11-2002, 01:03 AM
the green light on my floppy driver does on when I mount to it, it does also make sounds when i mount to it....but it just don't read my floppy. is it broken?
Is floppy so fragil?
Is floppy so fragil?
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Vlad902
11-11-2002, 01:25 AM
does that on mine... What do you do to mount it?
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
right?
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
right?
LrngTheHardWay
11-11-2002, 03:55 AM
Interestingly enough, something similar happend on one of my systems recently.
It actually turned out to be a bad drive.
As cheap as floppy drives still are, don't refuse to consider that this might be part of your problem.
It actually turned out to be a bad drive.
As cheap as floppy drives still are, don't refuse to consider that this might be part of your problem.
mdwatts
11-11-2002, 07:04 AM
Insert a dos formatted diskette and try
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
and if that doesn't work, then I would think you may need a new floppy drive.
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
and if that doesn't work, then I would think you may need a new floppy drive.
LrngTheHardWay
11-12-2002, 02:17 AM
....or try circumventing the OS entirely and boot from the floppy drive (may have to adjust BIOS settings) with something like a DR-DOS boot or Linux installation floppy.
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