Reading 5-inch floppy

Try:

/dev/fd1 /mnt/floppy2 auto defaults 0 0

and see what that does.
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Regards,
Thomas Cameron
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vaughn Treude" <vltreude@deru.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 8:42 PM
Subject: Reading 5-inch floppy


> Here's one for my fellow old-timers in the group:
> On one of my Linux boxes, I have a 5" floppy which I haven't used since I
> purged the MS stuff from it. I wanted to read some ancient data on it.
My
> 3.5" floppy is /dev/fd0, so I expect this to be /dev/fd1. Linux didn't
> assign fd1 to the fstab table (no surprise) so I tried editing it
manually.
> This is the entry I added:
>
> /dev/fd1h1200 /mnt/floppy2 msdos defaults 0 0
>
> When I attempt to mount it an old HD floppy, the error message is that
> there's either a bad superblock, bad fs type, or bad option. I've tried
> more than one, in case the first was bad, and yes, I have created the
> /mnt/floppy2 directory and made it look exactly like /mnt/floppy.
>
> Can anybody see something I might be missing?
>
> Thanks,
> Vaughn Treude
> Nakota Software, Inc.
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