[SWLUG] Problems with floppies

[Davage, Marcus]

Hi.
This might be an obvious one, but here goes...

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.

What was I doing wrong? I just wanted to use Linux to copy floppies. Windows
can do it.

> Marcus Davage


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