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Re: argh! linux and floppies



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On 10/28/06 13:29, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed how awful Linux has become for dealing with
> floppies (aka A-drive)?  Years ago it was not bad, but now, even
> mtoolsfm doesn't seem to work.  All of these floppies work in Windows
> and/or dos drives.  I find this to be the case on various different
> computers that are running Linux (Debian) that I've tried.  If anyone
> has any tips, I'd appreciate it.

Shouldn't the A: floppy drive still be /dev/fd0?

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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