[Klug-general] mount floppy 1.4Mb diskettes

[MacGyveR]

On Wednesday 23 Jul 2008, Mike Rentell wrote:
> Me again with my interminable idiot questions !
>
> I am trying to mount an old 1.4Mb floppy to read some old stuff. If I
> use a console and type:
>
> mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat /media/floppy
>
> ... that seems to work and when I look in /media/floppy the contents are
> visible, but only if I use a blue 720Kb diskette. If I use that line to
> look at the contents of a black (so-called HD) floppy I get nothing.
>
> I've trawled through all the man and help pages but I can't see any
> parameter which makes 1.4Mb floppies mountable.
>
> Am I doing something stupid here?
>
> Any ideas would be most gratefully received. Unfortunately I cut my
> teeth on Hollerith cards and COBOL. All this modern stuff is a bit
> baffling.  I mean there was a time when an HD 1.4Mb diskette was
> considered quite big enough for anything.
>
> MikeR
>
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do you get any related errors in 'dmesg'? do you know that the disks still 
work?

You do have a 1.44 floppy disk drive in your machine (check dmesg again for 
this)?

Is your motherboard's bios floppy setting set to the correct density?

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