You are mounting the filesystem on the floppy not the drive. If you do not unmount the disk prior to ejecting any pending writes will then be written to the next floppy inserted which will corrupt it's filesystem. Linux buffers reads and writes so you need to unmount to clear them out.
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Linux Mint 17.2 (rafaela)
Dell Optiplex 745 I haven't been able yet to access bios. I have tried the ways I am used to and my methods are ignored. Via the terminal and 'In root' I tried </etc/fstab> and got 'permission denied'. Is the terminal a text editor? The terminology in linux has me snowed. I am used to installing a floppy drive, not mounting it. An installed drive stays that way, never have I unmounted one. Once installed, it works, leave it alone, move on...that is my experience. It might be best if I forget trying to use the 3.5" drive. One person has directed me to some things to try that look familiar because I have tried them already. Perhaps the terminal is not a 'text editor', I will await your answer on that. Thanks for your attempts! Ted. |
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how to enable my 3.5" floppy drive in my Linux Mint pc
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My appreciation to all that have helped with my problem. What a friendly place this is. I can see I have a lot of reading to do to understand Linux. Years ago when the general population was hearing of Linux, I ordered a CD, installed, was totally dumbfounded and put the disk away...still have it. Now years later I am back to try and like what I see. Thanks to all, Ted. |
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