Questions[floppy](ubuntu)

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 group: sudo adduser $USER floppy
• loaded the floppy module: sudo modprobe -v floppy.

Doing sudo modprobe -v floppy did not work, I only got an error message saying modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'floppy': No such device.

The light on the front of the floopy drive is bright green, so it at least has power.

How do I figure out if it is a hardware or software issue.

Edit: I forgot to enable it in bios. floppy drive might still be defective (Diskette drive 0 seek failure sometimes on boot).

I have an old Mac formatted 1.44 MB floppy disk that I want to read in Ubuntu 18.04. When I tried to read it under Windows with the MacDisk app it says that the Mac volume header can't be found. I'm assuming the disk is just old and corrupt.

I was thinking it would make sense to use dd to get an image of the disk that I could then try to analyze somehow. Is dd the best way to do this or is there some other method that will make for a more easily analyzed image?

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 work(OWNER REMAIND ROOT) found an solution occasional (just trying some lines from other questions containing the word floppy) 1. put in floppy disk 2. in a terminal do the following line: udisks --mount /dev/fd0 (ubuntu had to install udisks-- but did it without great noise) after that-- i am the owner of the disk!! write and read works!! only fromat returns after some scratching on the disk with an time out error. to change floppy:: 1. unmount... udisks --unmount /dev/fd0 2. put in new floppy 3. mount... udisks --mount /dev/fd0

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 have bothered, but ubuntu seems to continually access the drive, and it is annoyingly noisy. Thanks in advance.

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 tested the floppy disk as well as the floppy drive itself under Windows XP, and everything was just fine.

I was able to find the following instructions:

• Add the following line to the /etc/modules file:

  floppy

• Enter the following shell commands:

  mkdir /media/floppy
mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /media/floppy -o uid=1000

This will mount the floppy, but I would like this to happen automatically, so when I connect the drive to the USB port, it automatically mounts the floppy.

How can I make this work? Or does Ubuntu only work with internal Floppy drives?