Reading 5-inch floppy

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Author: Vaughn Treude
Date:  
New-Topics: More login problems....
Subject: Reading 5-inch floppy
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