Re: [Freedos-user] OT: USB floppy cannot read medium on modern PC and Linux.

[dmccunney <den...@gm...>]

On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 8:48 PM,  <use...@ab...> wrote:
> On 2017-01-01 22:27, dmccunney wrote:
>>> I don't really expect help here. It is just a message to get the
>>> understand for why I cannot load FreeDOS onto a floppy at this time.
>> With proper knowledge, I suspect you could.
>
> I know that this USB floppy drive has worked. I was successfully reading
> a disk that I needed an image of under Linux. But I also know that a
> disk, that had worked in another PC with a classic floppy drive
> (connected to the FD port on the motherboard), had the same errors using
> the USB floppy drive.
>
> I don't know. It's prooven that it does work -- sometimes. It's also
> prooven that some disks give access errors all the way unter Linux.
> Honestly, I have no idea.

Take a variable out of the equation.  Start with a fresh, new floppy
disk.  Don't try to reuse an ancient one that may be failing due to
age.

Floppies are still made and should be findable.

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