Floppy drive weird behaviour. Hoary.

[Jenny Drake]

> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:23:20 +0100
> From: Norman Silverstone <norman at littletank.org>
> Subject: Re: Floppy drive weird behaviour. Hoary.
> To: Ubuntu Users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> I am running Warty. To format a floppy put the floppy in the drive and
> use Applications->System Tools->Floppy Formatter. To use the floppy with
> floppy in the drive, Computer->Disks->double click in floppy icon and
> drag files to the open window. Remember, when finished, right click
> floppy icon on screen and unmount before removing the floppy.  Hope this
> helps.
> 
> Norman
> 
> 

Thanks Norman. I didn't spot the Floppy Formatter. I tried it on half a
dozen disks and got a "Error formatting track #0" message for each one.
Might be all the disks (unlikely), might be the drive (possible), might
be Ubuntu (possible). I have now found my my key ring drive, so will use
that instead. First time I've used it with Ubuntu. Detected and mounted
perfectly. 

Jenny

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