Just a shot in the dark here...

Is there a chance that the disk is no longer readable? We are talking
about some pretty old technology.

Bart



On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 04:11, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> On Thursday 06 November 2003 01:42, you wrote:
> > Try:
> >
> > /dev/fd1 /mnt/floppy2 auto defaults 0 0
> >
> > and see what that does.
> 
> This is what it does:
> If I just say "mount /mnt/floppy2" it says:
> /dev/fd1: Input/output error
> mount: block device /dev/fd1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> /dev/fd1: Input/output error
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> 
> So I specified the file system type:
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /mnt/floppy2
> And it says:
> mount: block device /dev/fd1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd1,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> 
> I wonder if I need to specify the block size or something.
> 
> Thanks,
> Vaughn
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