I scanned over 100 diskettes yesterday looking for a program I wrote 20 years ago. Those that have never had a hard drive fail.
I also have all the old fashioned /dev nodes to format floppies. I did read a set of Windows 3.1 and DOS 6.2 disks a while ago, so reading 3 1/2' floppies worked then. I have all the bits and pieces to test both 5 1/4' and 3 1/2' floppies, except for the 2.88Mb format. I have a lot of defective diskettes, but when it works, I can access them with mtools.
Seems sys-apps/util-linux requries USE=fdformat to get the low level formatter program for Linux. Unfortunately I don't know if it's the drive or the driver. I was trying to test my Epson SD800 dual drive and couldn't read a single sector. Posted: Tue 3:10 pm Post subject: Floppy support? Gentoo Forums Forum Index Kernel & Hardware Gentoo Forums :: View topic - Floppy support?
