I'm having strange behavior on my floppy a: drive

I have a dual boot machine (windows xp and suse linux 8.1)

While logged in linux I put a file on the floppy disk. when I go into windows I can not see the file. When I go back to linux, the file is gone.

cheers
Scott

I really dont know for sure but I wonder if it has something to do with the file sysytem linux uses to format the floppy.

It is a standard DOS formatted floppy? How are you mounting the floppy?

the floppy came pre-formated out of the box. I have used it before to transfer files between windows boxes. I've done nothing to try to re-format the floppy.

cheers
Scott

How are you mounting the floppy?

do you mean mount the floppy drive?
I haven't done anything besides using the suse disks
to install 8.1 so what ever defaults it sets up.

cheers
Scott

every time u have I/O to a floppy disk, u need to mount the floppy , and when done u umount it. so u mount the floppy first, then u copy , then u umount

Try this command as root:
mount /mnt/floppy OR mount /dev/fd0
and then try access the floppy
Hope that helps!

mount /dev/fd0 does not work

I get this error

mount /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

any other words of wisdom?

cheers
scott

btw,
here is the output (video card still doesn't work though)




x1-6-00-e0-18-94-99-a3:~ # which switch2nv
/usr/bin/switch2nv
x1-6-00-e0-18-94-99-a3:~ # switch2nv
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Switching the use of "nvidia" driver of nVidia to "nv" driver of XFree86
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Creating symbolic links to the correct OpenGL library ... done
Patching /etc/X11/XF86Config ... done


x1-6-00-e0-18-94-99-a3:~ # reboot




cheers
scott

did u try mount /mnt/floppy ??
or mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ?

try one of those 2