Hello everyone,

I'm trying to use an old program (EMT4UNIX) that works fine with physical floppy drives, but doesn't work with floppy images or loop devices.

The message is:
Just to clarify, this loop device works fine outside this program, but I guess it is not a "real enough" block device and the program detects it and thus halts.

Is there some equivalent of CDEmu but for floppy drives? Any way I can fool the program to think this is actually a physical floppy drive?

By the way, if it's of any importance, I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 ATM.

Thanks.

At the moment the only thing I can think of that emulates a physical floppy drive is a hypervisor i.e. QEMU, Bochs or VirtualBox etc.

the current linux kernels do not auto look for 3.5 in drives

you need to manually run " modprobe " AS root

for something like this i might use a KVM running rhel5 ( or CentOS 5.11 )
or if this really is a very old program a vm with rhel4


as to
please let us know what hardware this is that it works on

HxC is a floppy emulator, but it's not totally virtual.