Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu GUI (Gnome) can't write to floppy

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Thu Feb 25 2010 - 22:56:02 EST


On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Ron Youvan wrote:

> Hi Pete Theisen:
>
> Any comment with a fd0 and or fd1 (for floppy drive/disk) or the word "
> floppy " the name of the driver for floppy drives.

Then you can do

tail -f /var/log/dmesg | grep --line-buffered -e 'fd[01]' -e floppy

in one terminal while you attempt to access the drive in another or in the
GUI. Into the terminal with the log, you can type strings of newlines to
help keep track of which messages are related to which actions.

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