I need some help please???

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?

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Bob Holtzman
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