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Re: Do anyone has an experience with a floppy?
Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2024 6:18 am
by bbfuller
Just tried that again with an older MX laptop and the one I tried earlier.
Both are working properly now.
Re: Do anyone has an experience with a floppy?
Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2024 7:06 am
by r-tea
bbfuller wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2024 4:50 am
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 like you're not alone.
Thank you for your support. I am pretty sure that the floppy disk (disks) are ok. I can read them all, but I can't write them.
BTW, how to delete, erease, format the whole floppy disk and create new partition, for example an ext4 one?
Re: Do anyone has an experience with a floppy?
Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2024 7:34 pm
by r-tea
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.
Re: Do anyone has an experience with a floppy?
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 7:47 am
by ghunter
try changing to wiki
https://wiki.debian.org/Floppy
However it thinks you need to be a member of the group floppy.....and so the non-root command
must contain string floppy.
you can also instead of making yourself a member of that group...change user to users......as user actually means root user
Re: Do anyone has an experience with a floppy?
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 10:11 am
by Gabriel_M
To format a floppy disk, it is convenient to act as root and create an ext2 file system, because ext3 is a 'journaling' type system and floppy disks do not have this feature, you can try with:
This is assuming that the floppy drive is /dev/fd0
Re: Do anyone has an experience with a floppy?
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 6:28 pm
by manyroads
Yep, I used floppies from the early 1980s to mid 1990s.