floppy

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 3/28/2012 5:24 PM, Patrick Lists wrote:
> On 03/29/2012 02:04 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
>> On 3/28/2012 4:18 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>> On 03/28/2012 04:07 PM, Patrick Lists wrote:
>>>> No idea if it makes any difference but I always did:
>>>>
>>>> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>>>
>>> Yes, that's right. Checking the man page, that's the right way to
>>> format the command. And, of course, /mnt/floppy must already exist.
>>
>> My memory is that on either F13 or F14, I was unable to get my floppys
>> to be recognized no matter what I did and there were some existing bugs
>> out on such. I never saw a resolution posted and have assumed that "it
>> ain't going to happen"
>
> In that case maybe you can try a CentOS 6 Live CD/DVD and see if it 
> can read the floppy. Maybe parts of it are old enough to still 
> appreciate that floppy.
>
> Regards,
> Patrick

Patrick:

Thanks for the suggestion. My solution was get all material on floppys 
onto CD/DVD and put the floppy drive in the same closet as the 8-track 
tape player (smile)

Paul