[vox-tech] Floppy drive with Linux Mint LMDE 2 MATE

[Rod Roark]

Thanks for the reply. But never mind, it works with some diskettes but
not others. Evidently some floppies do not last 27 years... who knew. :)

Rod

On 08/02/2017 01:43 PM, John Reed wrote:
> I was able to use a floppy drive on Ubuntu 14 last year. Don't know if
> that helps. 
>
> John
>
>
>
> On Aug 2, 2017 12:53 PM, "Rod Roark" <rod at sunsetsystems.com
> <mailto:rod at sunsetsystems.com>> wrote:
>
>     Wondering if anyone has any experience/insight with this. I have some
>     old (1989-91-ish) 3.5" floppy disks that I want to archive the data
>     from, and a TEAC 1.44 MB drive (actually 2 of them).  The PC is a
>     homebrew with a Gigabyte H55-USB3 mainboard and older Intel i3
>     CPU. The
>     floppy interface is enabled in BIOS settings.
>
>     As you may have guessed it's not working. With either "mdir" or "mount
>     /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" the drive LED comes on for a few seconds and
>     then
>     a message indicating /dev/fd0 does not exist (not true), and this
>     reported from dmesg:
>
>     > [  138.845258] floppy0: probe failed...
>     > [  139.243808] floppy0: probe failed...
>     > etc...
>     > [  144.821238] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
>     > [  144.821245] floppy: error -5 while reading block 0
>
>     /dev includes this:
>
>       brw-rw---- 1 root disk    2,   0 Aug  2 12:22 fd0
>
>     Any thoughts? I've tried 2 different drives, 2 cables, and 3
>     diskettes.
>     I'm pretty sure the cable positioning is right.
>
>     Rod
>
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