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size=2>Possibly the copy had not been completed. Once the commend has been given
Linux does the actual copy at its own pace. Before umounting the floppy type
"sync" to get all disks sync'd up</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=125440211-17102003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Terry</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
discuss-admin@swlug.org.uk [mailto:discuss-admin@swlug.org.uk] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Davage, Marcus<BR><B>Sent:</B> 17 October 2003 11:05<BR><B>To:</B> SWLUG
(E-mail)<BR><B>Subject:</B> [SWLUG] Problems with
floppies<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi.</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>This might
be an obvious one, but here goes...</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm using Gnome 2 under Mandrake 9.0, and I want to
copy lots of floppy disks into my home directory. Using the graphical file
manager I put the disk in, clicked on "floppy" on the desktop, clicked on
"Home" on the desktop, dragged the icon of the file that I wanted from
"Floppy" into "Home". Fine. Popped the disk out, pushed the new disk in,
clicked "Refresh" on "Floppy" and got a "Cannot read from disk" alert box. I
opened up a terminal, did an "ls" to find the contents of the previous disk. I
spent 10 minutes mounting and unmounting "Floppy", gave up, booted into
Windows and copied all my disks in no time.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>What was I doing wrong? I just wanted to use Linux
to copy floppies. Windows can do it.</FONT> </P>
<P><B><FONT face=Arial size=2>Marcus Davage</FONT></B> </P><FONT
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