read extern drive in ubuntu

[chris]

On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 12:30 -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote:
> On 07/01/2010 09:27 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> > On 1 July 2010 14:13, Todd Edwards<tedwards at mcclatchyinteractive.com>  wrote:
> >
> >    
> >> I don't believe the format of the document is important in this case.
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> OK,  the lady sent me the hard drives. It turns out that they are not 
> hard drives at all.   They 3 1/2in. floppy's :-)     The problem I am 
> having now is that Ubuntu 10.04 does not seem able to see the floppy 
> drive.  I found a tutorial on line to make Ubuntu 8.04 see the drive and 
> mount it but it doesn't seem to work for 10.04.  Any body knowhow to set 
> that up.  I also have xp on my drive and the floppy drive works on it. 
> But it can't read the Macintosh floppy I haope ubuntu can.       Doug
> 

Is it possible to see if there is  a Mac users club handy that could
read the disks, and copy them to a usb drive?

Have done this sort of thing before by this method
Cheers the kiwi