Re: [cobalt-users] OT Question - Floppy on Red Hat

[Mike Vanecek <nospam99@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 12:08:15 -0400 (EDT), flash22@xxxxxxx wrote:

:>On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Mike Vanecek wrote:
:>> Sorry for the OT question, but I ran into a problem trying to restore my
:>> Qube2. I downloaded Tulip.c on a Win4 machine and put it on a floppy. I had
:>> Red Hat running on another machine. I mounted the floppy and read the file off
:>> of the floppy to do a compile. Every time I copied the from the floppy the
:>> file was corrupted (characters changed) when I tried the compile. I used the
:>
:>What kernel version? There are bugs in the linux floppy driver in some
:>older kernels that corrupt data read from the floppy :(
:>
:>2.0.33 is definitly broken ;0

Version 2.2.5-15.

:>
:>oddly, sometimes using mcopy works....

Tried it and no success. Even if I do a less /mnt/floppy/tulip.c it fails. I
did remember to tell it to mount as -t vfat. I looked at the faq at Red Hat
and did not see anything. 

Does this mean Linux does not know how to use floppies?

Thank you for the response.