Cannot mount usb floppy

Ian Chapman packages at amiga-hardware.com
Mon May 7 13:57:54 UTC 2012


On 05/07/2012 09:33 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:

>
> Thanks,
>
> Good pointer Ian. And thanks everyone else who also replied. In the end,
> I decided not to lose any more time with this (after all, all I wanted
> to do was backing up an ancient BeOS install diskettte to a diskette
> image file), and proceeded to do this on a WinXP machine then email the
> diskette image file to myself, which I then downloaded on the Linux box :)

No worries. :-) For the record, many USB floppy drives don't support 
Double Density disks (720k if you like) either... as I found out a few 
years ago when trying to use it to bootstrap an old Amiga with limited 
connectivity :)


-- 
Ian Chapman.


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