Nonstandard lowlevel formats and USB floppy drives is linux capable 2947
Hi I have a Celeron 900 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 40 GIG HDD system. It has Win98- 22 GB (C,D,E,F drives) (hda1) RH9 -10 GB (hda8-boot, hda9...
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:39:43 +0100, Robert Heller staggered into the Black Sun and said:
Luser mount interface drive You are reading the words of an abjectly ignorant person re: some of this low level stuff. Pretty much gave it up when I quit programming...
Ah. If that's the case, it's probable that the USB floppy is making a buttumption that the disks it's reading are 1.4M, and that buttumption is around here at work, and nobody had one at the LUG meeting last night, so I'm sort of stuck unless I go down to Worst Buy and buy one.
I checked pricewatch.com for "USB floppy" and found that those drives with specs listed said "1.44M, 1.25M, and 720K capacity". It's possible that the drives' firmware is set up such that they only grok the common
Probably correct.
That probably depends on the exact motherboard. I'm sure there are some boards that lack a floppy controller and don't have the 34-pin connector. I have a recent motherboard (manufactured Oct. 2004, best guess) that has a floppy controller and 34-pin header to plug things into, though. YMotherboardMV, but if there's no floppy controller, a "full" ISO.
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