Questions relating to floppy disk drives and use of floppy disks
Questions tagged [floppy]
58 questions
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How to disable floppy drive?
I have a old Athlon X2 based system with an attached floppy drive. I had some old floppies which are now safely backed up on CD's.
Is there a way to simply disable the floppy drive, so that it wont be accessed in any way by the OS? I would not…
tinhed
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Floppy drive not detected
I am running Ubuntu server 20.04 into which I ssh. The machine itself has a floppy disk drive but it does not show up, when I run lsblk. There is also no /dev/fd0 only a /dev/fd/0.
Based on this, I
installed fdutils
added the user to the floppy…
Telefza
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write to floppy under ubuntu 15.04
I cant write to floppy-disk!
Reading is ok..
But write does not do .. you are not the owner
Owner is root.
I am new with Linux/ubuntu
So please some detailed info what i should do.
Thanks in advance
Thanks for all lines to try.. but no one did…
Anna Muller
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Floppy drive only works one way
I have no trouble copying files from the floppy drive but when I try to drag files to the floppy drive they move right back to the source folder without being copied. These are small files, well within the capacity of the floppy disk. What am I…
user240322
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How to detect the presence of a floppy disk?
I'm writing a utility for which I need to detect whether a floppy disk is present in the floppy disk drive, even when it is broken (cannot be read due to I/O errors).
How can I do this? [ -r /dev/fd0 ] always succeeds, even when no floppy is…
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