[PLUG] floppy disks @#$!!

[Michael C. Robinson]

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:17, Carla Schroder wrote:
> Is there some trick to using floppy disks on Linux? Or are floppy disks, 
> in general, just poo? I'm trying to save docs from Open Office on 
> floppy disks, and the darn things fail as often as they work.
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It's easy to pull the floppy cable just slighty off it's 
controller producing a lot of errors that might give the 
impression all your disks are bad seeing the drive light 
come on and go off.
  
Another thing to remember is that floppies need to be 
unmounted before popping them out.  The mtools package 
is helpful for working with dos disks.  

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Michael C. Robinson

Associates of General Studies 
PCC March 2003.
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