[SWLUG] Problems with floppies

[Terry John]

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
 
Terry

	-----Original Message-----
	From: discuss-admin at swlug.org.uk
[mailto:discuss-admin at swlug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Davage, Marcus
	Sent: 17 October 2003 11:05
	To: SWLUG (E-mail)
	Subject: [SWLUG] Problems with floppies
	
	

	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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