On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, you wrote:
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Darren R. Weber wrote:
I am just curious about floppy formatting. I like the KFloppy interface but have found it somewhat unreliable. When I format it in dos format it seems to work but sometimes I end up loosing data after using the disks. Since I don't share my disks much anymore since I have everything networked I figured I would be better off using ext2fs. It is also an option in KFloppy so that would make it easy. .. .not! When I use KFloppy to format in ext2fs after doing the format I get a long stream of kernel errors from the verify process. So my question is: What is the best filesystem to use for my floppies and what is the best way to format them?
Darren,
I also use KFloppy... in fact I have just finished formatting as ext2 a previously dos formatted floppy and received no error messages. Actually, mounting and using it seems perfectly ok. I suspect that there's something wrong with your installation...
Cheers,
Alvaro
That was my first thought, but this is not an error I get with every disk every time. It happens sometimes and sometimes it doesn't. I also have 3 different installs of SuSE and I have the same spiratic problem with each. I then thought maybe I was getting bad disks and I checked them. On more than one occasion a disk that lost data after dos formatting with kfloppy worked fine after formatting in win95. I don't use windows except when at work and I don't like having to use my wife's computer every time I want to format a floppy. I just know there has to be a more reliable way to do it all on my linux computer and not worry about loosing data. Thanks for the guess though. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darren R. Weber drw@linuxfan.com ICQ# 2849193 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/