Floppy Discs problem - Linux Forums

09-11-2006	#1 (permalink)
kpetrov123 Just Joined! Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 11	Floppy Discs problem I use Knoppix 4 and whenever I try to use a floppy, it is rotating it at some - low speed and absolutely nothing happens. I tryed reformating in Knoppix with KDiskette (or something similar) and it goes like normal formatting. I tried with DOS and ext2. When it goes to 100 % it falls to 0% and again the floppy rotates slow and the same situation. Any ideas?

09-11-2006	#2 (permalink)
rcgreen Linux Enthusiast Join Date: May 2006 Location: the hills Posts: 716	Floppy disks and drives are notoriously unreliable. Try a fresh new disk, and if that doesn't work, replace the drive. The ultimate test is if the drive will work in dos. You can download ISO files that, when burned to cd, will boot you into a plain dos system. If the floppy is still flakey in that case, replace the drive. They are cheap.

09-11-2006

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Originally Posted by rcgreen

Floppy disks and drives are notoriously unreliable.
Try a fresh new disk, and if that doesn't work,
replace the drive. The ultimate test is if the drive
will work in dos. You can download ISO files that,
when burned to cd, will boot you into a plain
dos system. If the floppy is still flakey in that
case, replace the drive. They are cheap.

I tried another disk, it is not working same as the first one

. The drive is working in Windows nice...

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