Re: Floppy Mounting Problems

[Colin Marquardt <colin.marquardt@gmx.de>]

* Eric Gillespie, <epgilles@olemiss.edu> writes:

> I have a stack of floppies that i'm sorting through, and i need to know what's
> on them. Some of them, however, aren't formatted. I have know way to know
> which ones aren't until i mount them. Every time i try to mount an unformatted
> floppy, mount segfaults. Afterwards, if i try to mount another floppy it

Have you tried the mtools? These allow you to access the drive with the
DOS commands (with a prefix-"m"). Thjey don´t use mount internally, so
just try mdir.

HTH,
  Colin

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Colin Marquardt <colin.marquardt@gmx.de>