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Hello once again,
As a side note to one of my other problems I posted on here, I can not also get my floppy to work. When I try to mount it it says,
Write protected, mounting in read only
wrong fs type, bad super block on fd0, or too many mounted file systems.
I have it to auto load in etc/fstab, but the disk isn't reading or on write protect. I can't use it at all and I am getting close to just loading Win on here and calling it a day.
My floppy drive is screwed into the case... i think most floppy drives have 6 mounting holes, and overtightening any of them can mess up the floppy operation .... just unscrew the drive but keep the floppy and power cable connected, and see if that works.
that is how I currently have it set up. It is sitting on the side of the case. It still don't wanna work. The light stays on the whole time. I do get a floppy dir in the /mnt. But I can't do anything with the disc.
the light stays on the whole time? flip the floppy cable ... (what you think is pin one is really pin 40) and turn the computer on ... in the Bios there should be a floppy seek option, turn that on and see if the computer seeks it at boot.
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