On 10/27/21 9:23 AM, Aragorn wrote:
On 27.10.2021 at 06:36, philo scribbled:
I work on quite a few antique computers and occasionally will have
the need to read or format a floppy.
Though of course I can do so from DOS or Windows, I'm curious as to
why , when I cannot do so from Linux.
I've played with all the settings I can think of and either can't
mount it at all, or if I can...cannot access the data.
Not a major big deal but still curious .
<https://techreport.com/news/3464145/linux-dropping-floppy-drive-support/>
I guess it's a project not worth pursuing.
Oddly, after I fooled around a bit and went to "Disks" I could format a
floppy from there.
Still no way to access it.
FWIW I just repaired two Apple SE's.
They use an 800k floppy that even with software that can read Mac
format, Windows cannot access. It can read the 1.4meg floppies though.
Was going to try from Linux.
I had a super PITA problem in that one fo the SE's HD's was HFS but the
other was MFS
My Windows machine with HFS reading software could not read the MFS
drive so I had to transfer data by floppy. I have so few parts left that
for the first time in my life I cleaned the heads on a floppy drive
rather than throw it out.
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