On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, William Lindley wrote:

> Good questions.  some half answers:
> 
> Floppies other than connected to the archaic floppy port are difficult to
> use under Linux... all my systems have LS-120 floppy drives (yes, these
> read and write standard 1.44 floppies) connected to the IDE port; and in
> several years, I've never been able to get "make boot disk" or "format
> floppy" to work under any flavor of Linux.  Discouraging.
> 

I currently have this problem with an ordinary floppy drive that 
/etc/fstab lists as /dev/fd0, only in my case the GUI format tool seems to 
work (at least thats what /etc/mtab says), but when I use the Gui tool to 
create a boot disk I get a blank vfat disk or a lost+found directory on an 
ext2 disk. I haven't tried to create the boot disk from the CLI yet but 
will when I get some time. I have never had occasion to use a floppy for 
anything but a boot disk so I can't say it won't work for other 
applications. BTW, this is on a RH7.3 box. 

Anyone have any ideas?
 
-- 
Bob Holtzman
"If you think you're getting free lunch,
 ......check the price of the beer!"