Floppy--Can read but not write
My computer is Dell Inspiron 600 laptop.
I have the Dell floppy module, connected by USB.
The module works fine in Windows XP.?? It can read and write in Windows.
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In MEPIS I can read from the floppy, but I cannot write to it.?? Whether logged in as user or root it's the same. If I attempt to paste in a file I get message "Writing to devices is not supported".?? If I try to run Kfloppy, it gets set to format and then does nothing.
If I go into Properties, I find I have the permission "Can view content".?? If I select "Can view and modify content", I get message "Changing the attributes of files is not supported with protocol devices."?? Root or user, it's the same.?? Floppy drive with diskette mounted, or floppy drive empty, it's the same.
Control Center doesn't help.???? I can't find the floppy listed.
Is there a trick to getting my computer to write to floppy in MEPIS?
BTW, is there anything unusua
BTW, is there anything unusual about one of the messages that flashes by on bootup:
FATAL: error inserting floppy (/lib/modules/2.6.7/kernal/drivers/block/floppy.ko)
kfloppy
Martin,
Yes, Kfloppy is useless in current Mepis editions. I wrote a short script in Kwrite to format floppy disks and saved it as a text file (formatA.txt).
#!/bin/sh
fdformat /dev/fd0 ; mkfs -t vfat /dev/fd0
### END
I placed it in /usr/local/bin and created a executable desktop "link to application" to run it. Mepis will recognize it as a shell script due to "#!/bin/sh" in the first line.
Luck,
Vince
Vince LaPorte
Marshall, MN 56258
Thanks to all. Writing to
Thanks to all. Writing to a floppy in linux is probably something I won't need to do often, but it's nice to have the capability.
Windows 2000 computers at work mostly still have floppies and no CDRW.
Situation where linux in my own computer has come to the rescue: Rarely, re-edited MS Word documents have sometimes become dysfunctional. I suspect it may be conflicting auto formatting functions. Once (using my old desktop computer and SuSE 8.2) I was able to rescue some dysfunctional Word .doc files by opening in Open Office.
Okay, tanks, I guess that's r
Okay, thanks, I guess that's reassuring in a sense that I'm trying to do what can't be done. (Good thing I created a FAT32 partition in Windows, so I can write stuff there and use Windows to work with floppy from there.)
Using your advice I was able to take a file in Konquerer and use Copy To, to Root Folder, to mnt to floppy, to Copy Here, and have it work. Is there anything more I can actually do with a floppy in MEPIS besides that and reading from it?
Is Kfloppy a dysfunctional program in MEPIS?