[NTLUG:Discuss] problem w/ copying to a floppy drive

[Bug Hunter]

  If you have mtools installed, try putting a floppy in that was formatted
on a dos machine:

mcopy filename a:
remove floppy

on other machine
mcopy a:filename .


  DO NOT MOUNT the floppy

  otherwise, do this:

mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
cp filename /mnt/floppy
sync
umount /mnt/floppy

on new machine

mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
cp /mnt/floppy/filename .
umount /mnt/floppy

  see if this works better.  I've found that "auto" does not always
automatically work.



On Tue, 28 May 2002, Geremy L. Hamlett wrote:

> 
> For anyone who wants to help.
> 
> This is probably a dumb question, but i cant seem to find an answer.  
> when i copy (cp) a file to a floppy disk (1.44 M) and then umount it, and 
> then later go back and remount it onto another computer the file that I 
> copied is turned into garbage (unreadable junk).  The files I am 
> transfering are simple .c files.  
> 
> Here is my sequence in doing this.
> 
> $:  mount /mnt/floppy/
> $:  cp somefile /mnt/floppy/
> $:  umount /mnt/floppy
> 
> After this i a can view the file in the /mnt/floppy/ directory wiht vi, 
> cat, anything and it is ok.  When I umount it and remount it on the same 
> computer, or a diffrent one, the file is garbage.
> 
> 
> This is what my fstab floppy line looks like.
> 
> /dev/fd0	/mnt/floppy		auto	noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> 
> 
> I am running RedHat 7.2 w/  2.4.9-31 
> I only noticed this after I had another computer to transfer files 
> between.
> 
> 
> Please help.