On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, fredex wrote: > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 10:55:28AM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > > I'm trying to read some old (duh) 5 inch > > floppies with a borrowed drive on an FC3 box. > > Probabaly there is more than one format, > > but I'm not sure which has which. > > The usual result is that I can read the > > directory by clicking on a KDE icon, > > but get I/O errors when trying to read any of the files. > > Trying to mount with a mount command also results > > in an I/O error. > > If I couldn't read the directory, > > I'd suppose that I was out of luck. > > Is there a reason that the directory > > would be easier to read than the files? > > Any ideas on how to read the files? > > It's possible that the floppies have many bad spots on them. My > experience is that floppies that are years old have a tendency > to become unreadable as time passes. I threw out some unreadable ones of mine years ago before 5 inch devices became rare. It does seem strange that the directories would be more readable than the files. > As for how you are mounting them, assuming you've got the floppy > drive listed in /etc/fstab, something like this: > It's pam-ed. managed is one of the options. > > you should be able to do: > FC3 uses /media/floppy . Is there a reason for the difference in readability between the directory and other files? Is there a reason that clicking would work, but not an explicit mount? Would it help to replace the fstab entry with something else? If I change fstab , should I reboot? -- Mike hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "There are three kinds of people, those who can count and those who can't."
