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Is there a way to get my floppy drive work properly?

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piff
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Location: Szeged, Hungary

Is there a way to get my floppy drive work properly?

#1 Post by piff »

Hi! I would have thought that a floppy drive is nuts. Well in this wonderful OS, full of challenges, it isn't.

Is that right that the /floppy directory contains the links of the data on the drive?

Because It lists nothing, nor reading the floppy before listing. Moreover, when I tried to copy all data from it to another dir, it tried to copy the files that were on the previous floppy...now what?
Isn't that refreshing itself? Seemingly not :cry:

Is it me or is it the ghost of the machine?

So what do I do? HELP!

piff
Posts: 8
Joined: 2005-05-14 23:49
Location: Szeged, Hungary

#2 Post by piff »

Okay, I found a way, so I use this until somebody smarter than me tells an alternative:

If I want to change the floppy in the drive, in order to be recognised I go to init 6, then re-mount the /floppy, because there is no unmount command (maybe a separate downloadable util contains it).

It's quite lame, but that's all I could come up with so far.

Any suggestions? A good guess would do either:)

pigah
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Joined: 2005-03-29 23:20

#3 Post by pigah »

did you try umount?

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#4 Post by Guest »

Do you mean every time I change a disk?
(I did not, because I was forcing uNmount, not umount, which did not work :oops: )

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