On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Chuck Hast wrote:
> Went to the computer show yesterday and got a USB floppy for this machine.
> I know it works as I have brought up the windows side and it finds it just fine.
>
> When I am running SuSE 9.1 I can not appear to find it. I do hear the
> FD searching
> and it appears to be setting there running as i can see the motor
> going on and off
> and can hear the head or whatever making clicking noises inside the machine.
Is that a known-good floppy disk? Does it have some filesystem that maybe
Linux does not understand? Do you have another Linux machine (with a
different floppy drive) in which you can format a floppy disk?
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