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Questions relating to floppy disk drives and use of floppy disks

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5.25" floppies won't mount

I have received some research that is on 5. 25" floppies. My mobo supports 5. 25" disks, and, I have the disk drive. I am not trying to use this media long term, I just want the research data. Update: I just found out the file-system is some…
j0h
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How to disable floppy drive?

I have a old Athlon X2 based system with an attached floppy drive. I had some old floppies which are now safely backed up on CD's. Is there a way to simply disable the floppy drive, so that it wont be accessed in any way by the OS? I would not…
tinhed
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How to completely disable floppy in Ubuntu 14.04?

So I upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 and now I see Floppy in my Home Folder tree how do I remove it? what I did since Ubuntu 12.04 is: Edit /etc/fstab to remove reference to floppy. Edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add this line at the end: …
JoKeR
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How do I use a floppy drive in Ubuntu?

Same computer, under Ubuntu 8.04 no problem at all. Under 12.04, floppy drive is non existent for Ubuntu. Drive and floppy disquette works well on DOS. Computer boots from the floppy W98se, no problem at all. How I can use floppys under Ubuntu 12.04…
Miguel Parada
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create floppy images

I'm running a virtualbox ms dos 6.22 emulator and I need quite a lot of virtual floppy images filled with software. Does anyone know a good program to efficiently create floppy images and fill them with my specified files?? It's for an Old School…
Akisame
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How can I get a USB floppy drive to work?

I have a Toshiba USB floppy drive that I need to use under Ubuntu. When I connect it, and insert a floppy disk in it, I do not see anything mounted under Ubuntu 10.10. I was suspecting the hardware and/or the floppy disk to be defective, and so I…
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How to obtain the correct vfat path translation for my floppies?

My father left me a batch of 3.5 inch "floppy" disks created with Windows 95 (Dutch). I want to copy their contents. My only computer with a floppy drive runs Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS. After installing the udisks package, udisks --mount /dev/fd0 mounts…
Reinier Post
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Can I boot Ubuntu from a floppy?

I'm stuck on a really old computer with ~500MB RAM and a 6GB HDD. It has Windows 2000. Being not from this side of the century (it originally ran Windows 98), the BIOS does not have an option to boot from USB. It also does not have a CD burner,…
WindowsEscapist
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How to permanently change floppy rights?

I installed Lubuntu 14.04 on an old computer, and I'm trying to use its floppy drive, since it's the fastest way to move small files from it to my other computers. I'm having troubles, though, since apparently only root has the rights to work with…
il mietitore
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How to stop "Floppy Disk" icon from appearing in 13.04 launcher?

Whenever I remove external hard drive or USB flash drive, a Floppy Disk icon appears in launcher. If I unlock it, it goes away but only until I use a USB device again. How to stop this? BTW I don't have an actual floppy disk drive installed.…
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Problem mounting internal floppy drive

This is the error I received when I tried mounting internal floppy drive: Error mounting system-managed device /dev/fd0: Command-line `mount "/media/floppy0"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device I'm…
mike
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Floppy drive not detected

I am running Ubuntu server 20.04 into which I ssh. The machine itself has a floppy disk drive but it does not show up, when I run lsblk. There is also no /dev/fd0 only a /dev/fd/0. Based on this, I installed fdutils added the user to the floppy…
Telefza
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USB floppy is mounted readonly in Thunar

I have connected an USB floppy drive to my Xubuntu 17.04 machine. The floppy shows up in Thunar for mounting but it is readonly afterwards. The writeprotect tab on the disk is closed and I can write on the old machine I am exchanging data with. My…
SSB
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write to floppy under ubuntu 15.04

I cant write to floppy-disk! Reading is ok.. But write does not do .. you are not the owner Owner is root. I am new with Linux/ubuntu So please some detailed info what i should do. Thanks in advance Thanks for all lines to try.. but no one did…
Anna Muller
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I can't format disk in USB floppy drive

I need to low-level format floppies with an external usb floppy drive in ubuntu 10.04 (or later) server. I have tried the tools that come with util-linux-ng, and contain (specifically) fdformat. Unfortunately these tools are written to use /dev/fd*…
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