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Old 09-10-2015, 02:46 PM   #1
Jerrold
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Lightbulb Reading and writing to floppy..Simply.


To read and write to floppy I have found that fstab has to have the following entry.....

/dev/fd0 media/floppy0 auto rw,users,noauto,fmask=111,dmask=000 0 0

Insert floppy.Read and write to floppy. Then,unmount floppy before removing from drive,using file manager to unmount.
... Now to sort out disc copy!
 
Old 09-10-2015, 08:40 PM   #2
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Disk copy ought to be easy I'd think. A dd command to the correct place should work. I haven't tried gparted but it might even work. Normally gparted is a tool for partitions but it can copy partitions. Never even tried to see if it would see a floppy. It may not.

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