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Author: Roy Babin
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Subject: Floppy drive
Craig White wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 15:48, Roy Babin wrote:
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>>Bryce C wrote:
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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.
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>>>>JD
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>>            It was formatted as Ext2,

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>I've always used VFAT for floppy disks.
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>Did you mount it first? mount /mnt/floppy
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>Did you umount it before you removed it? Generally on Unix, copies will
>be cached and 'umounting it first tells it to flush the cash NOW and let
>me have the disk' Also, ext2 will not be usable by Windows computers -
>VFAT will.
>
>Craig
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     I only find two choices......ext2 or dos..... for formatting, will 
not be using in Windows