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Re: argh! linux and floppies



> Am 2006-10-28 17:47:55, schrieb Kent West:
> > I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5" floppies on two
> > different machines, and can't get anywhere with them. I decided to put
> > it on the back burner and read my email when I came across your post.
> > 
> > I've tried cfdisk and fdisk to look at the partition(s) (do these work
> > on floppies?), and mformat, and mkfs.vfat, and fdformat, and all I ever
> > get is something like "could not get geometry of device" or "Problem
> > reading cylinder 0" or "Unable to read /dev/fd0", etc.

On 09.11.06 15:08, Michelle Konzack wrote:
>     modprobe floppy

and if this helps, you should probably install udev (and hotplug) to have
such things done automatically whenever you try to access floppy disk.

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