> 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? > Hmm - did you tell the system BIOS what you have done? That is change the floppy type to 5 1/4" 1.2MB or 360k? Watch the boot screen it should tell you what (if any) floppies are set in the BIOS. Most of them will not auto-detect a new floppy. Mick M. Dogs have Masters - Siamese Cats have Staff! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
