Thanks to Rick and James!
I figured it out, and it was really pretty dumb. I wanted to follow Rick's tip, that the light would be on full-time if I had the cable backwards. Since I hadn't seen the light go on ever, I figured, maybe it's broken. So I opened up the case, and saw that I'd forgotten to plug the floppy drive into power. I guess the moral of this story is, hwbrowser may show you hardware that you don't have :-).
James--I sure wanted to try it with a floppy I knew was working, but 99% of the floppies we have around here are USB (long story). I had tried to plug one of those in, and it didn't work all by itself, so I decided to try a good old-fashioned internal drive. Of which we have very, very few. Thanks.
--Matt
On 04/09/2004 03:11 PM, James Kosin wrote:
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Rick Stevens wrote: <<-- snip -->>
If you use fdformat to format the floppy in Linux, you still need to use mkfs to build a file system on the floppy. Otherwise, you will still get this error, even after the format.
/dev/fd0 is only permitted if fdformat knows the format already or can find it out from the floppy.
You can use mount /mnt/floppy to try again. Or better still, get a disk you know is good... and try mounting that.
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