On 29 Jul 2006, at 10:49, Yasir Malik wrote:

> > Could you post all dmesgs related to your floppy and its controller:
> >
> > 	grep ^fd /var/run/dmesg.boot
> >
> Here is the output:
> fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
> fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec

That looks same as here other than I have an extra line for fd1

  inserts 1.44 dos boot floppy
  mkdir /tmp/floppy
  mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /tmp/floppy
  ls /tmp/floppy

works ok.

I assume you've checked that /tmp/floppy exists (just in case you 
have same setup as me where /tmp is cleared out at bootup)?

Only real problem here is I find 1.44MB media very unreliable and 
*nix seems more particular than Windows on what's acceptable. I have 
20yr old 5.25" floppies that are still readable whilst brand new 
1.44MB seem to go bad very quickly.

David