Richard Bos schrieb:
I thought in a blink of an eye to simple backup some files at a floppy disk. It seems more challencing I ever expected. I've some floppies around and use these. I started with formatting it for 1.4 MB, with the following result:
dar:~ # fdformat /dev/fd0u1440 Double-sided, 80 tracks, 18 sec/track. Total capacity 1440 kB. Formatting ... done Verifying ... Read: : Input/output error Problem reading cylinder 0, expected 18432, read -1
I am receiving same sort of error on "bad" floppys. (I rather think my floppy drive at work is a bit bad, since there are so many...)
Alright an old floppy use a lower density: dar:~ # fdformat /dev/fd0u720 Double-sided, 80 tracks, 9 sec/track. Total capacity 720 kB. Formatting ... done Verifying ... done
yes that's a way to *low level format* a floppy
Seems to work fine. Now mount it: dar:~ # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt mount: you must specify the filesystem type
yes. but you failed to that yet. ;-) It's low level formatted. try "mkfs -tmsdos /dev/fd0u720" (if memory suits right... try the man page of mkfs if it fails)
System: suse-7.3
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