[NTLUG:Discuss] floppy questions

[Jay Urish]

Is this your command?

|mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

Your drive could just be crap... Thats the deal with these floppys... 
You install them in a new pc and they sit there with dirty air flowing 
through them courtesy of the pc fans and they just die....
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On 12/9/2010 11:38 AM, Fred James wrote:
> Jay Urish wrote:
>> Should be fat16
>>
>> On 12/9/2010 11:24 AM, Fred James wrote:
>>> I have some 3.5 floppy disk that were made on a Win98SE system, that 
>>> I should like to mount and read on a Linux box.  But so far I have 
>>> not been able to get the filesystem type correct ... any clues would 
>>> be appreciated.  Thanks
>>> Regards
>>> Fred James
> Attempting to specify 'fat', 'fat16', or 'fat32' results in the 
> message: "mount: maybe you meant 'vfat'?"
> Specifying 'vfat' results in the message "mount: /dev/fd0: can't read 
> superblock"
> Does that mean it is hopeless?  Is there some other way to get the 
> data off these disk?
> Regards
> Fred James
>
>
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