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Can anyone provide me the "fdformat" command file? I suspect there is something wrong with my floppy drive because it is for sure mounted with rw parameter.

Today I try to download MX 23.4 KDE DVD iso, but all my downloads failed.
All repos including the official one seem to be dead.
Or maybe it's because my FF browser?
My internet acces is ok. I can browse websites.

I started an MXLinux laptop and took the floppy drive to it.

It happily read both of the disks I had been playing with.

When I tried writing another file to the floppy (1.3MB free, 81.6KB test file, I got the message:

Access Denied
Could not write to /media/bbfuller/disk/<filename here>

Looks ...

Floppy diskettes used to have a little tab in the corner on the back of them that could be slid into a read-only position to prevent anyone from overwriting them. Assuming you can run "mount" and the floppy diskette is mounted in Linux and does not have the "ro" flag set, consider double-checking ...

With all requests, as per forum rules (which, if you haven't, please read), please share your full Quick System Info, do not edit.
If need be, you can do this using the LiveUSB, thanks.


Snapshot created on: 20241210_1400
System:
Kernel: 6.1.0-28-amd64 [6.1.119-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 ...

What is up with floppy disks on MX Linux?
I have tested several floppy disks, that work fine on Windows, but I can't get them work properly on MX Linux.
The problem is that I can only read them. I can't write them.
When I attempt to write I got always "Acces denied". Changing owner and privileges ...