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Author: Roy Babin
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Subject: Floppy drive
Bryce C wrote:

>NTFS doesn't support a volume size as small as 1.44Mb, or even 2.88Mb
>IIRC.
>
>On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 14:25, JD Austin wrote:
>
>
>>>Installed new floppy drive, I can format a diskette, but when I try to
>>>write to it I get an error msg.:write error, file could not be written"
>>>I am using Suse , under KDE. Works ok under Winxp. can anyone help this
>>>old man out?  Thanks in advance.
>>>Roy    The Old Fart.

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>>Just jumping to conclusions here but did you format it as an NTFS disk?
>>If so the linux drivers may be read only drivers.
>>
>>JD
>>
>>

            It was formatted as Ext2,