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I have recently tried the latest Ubuntu 9.10 on a spare computer but cannot get the floppy drive to work. Clicking on the Floppy (in Places) it does not appear possible to mount it. The only message appearing is "re-scan floppy".
I do not understand what scan or re-scan floppy means.
An earlier version of Ubuntu also had trouble with the floppy drive but I found a solution to that on the Ubuntu forum. That solution, of course, doesn't work with 9.10.
The matter is not urgent but if a solution is available I will upgrade otherwise I must stay with my earlier edition of Ubuntu as I have a lot of data kept on floppies.
My apologies if this, my first post, is somewhat mundane. Tridentowner.
I have recently tried the latest Ubuntu 9.10 on a spare computer but cannot get the floppy drive to work. Clicking on the Floppy (in Places) it does not appear possible to mount it. The only message appearing is "re-scan floppy".
I do not understand what scan or re-scan floppy means.
An earlier version of Ubuntu also had trouble with the floppy drive but I found a solution to that on the Ubuntu forum. That solution, of course, doesn't work with 9.10.
The matter is not urgent but if a solution is available I will upgrade otherwise I must stay with my earlier edition of Ubuntu as I have a lot of data kept on floppies.
My apologies if this, my first post, is somewhat mundane. Tridentowner.
The following URL may have the answers you are looking for:
My abject apologies knudfl for not thanking you for your post # 3 which I tried sometime ago. It worked as you predicted and put an icon on the desktop.
However, it still seems a bit cock-eyed having to use the command line to get the floppy drive up and running each time when the floppy is at 'Places' on the desktop. The Scan and Re-scan still remains a mystery.
I'm not sure whether what I'm seeking is possible with this particular distribution (Ubuntu 9.10 and also LinuxMint 8)?
Tridentowner.
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I think there are some contradictions :
Ubuntu decided, that nobody uses floppy any more. AFAIK.
But it still shows up in Gnome.
In Ubuntu 9.10 ( and in the may be similar 'Mint )
it's not an impossible thing. Much worse in Ubuntu 8.10 , 9.04
where you had no floppy module loaded and no /dev/floppy.
So you had to do 1) MAKEDEV floppy and 2) modprobe floppy,
before you even had a chance to mount it.
So in that way the latest version has become easier.
.....
Ubuntu decided, that nobody uses floppy any more. AFAIK.
But it still shows up in Gnome.
In Ubuntu 9.10 ( and in the may be similar 'Mint )
it's not an impossible thing. Much worse in Ubuntu 8.10 , 9.04
where you had no floppy module loaded and no /dev/floppy.
So you had to do 1) MAKEDEV floppy and 2) modprobe floppy,
before you even had a chance to mount it.
So in that way the latest version has become easier.
.....
Many thanks Knudfl. Your explanation is very convincing. It looks as though I shall have to follow the herd and ditch my floppies in due course.
Tridentowner.
Though post # 3 worked quite satisfactorily for sometime now I am getting strange outputs like mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified
Forgive me for my ignorance as I am new user and would like to learn it to make full use of it.
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