Reading 5-inch floppy

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.
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does the computer bios see the drive correctly? IIRC - 360K floppy drive
or 720K floppy drive - I think that these values were for 3 1/2 SD & DD
respectively but you get the idea. Does Linux care what the BIOS even
figures them to be...

also - anything in /var/log/dmesg to indicate that we are barking up
correct /dev/fd1 tree?

Craig