zip drive keeps telling me that the floppy disk needs to be formatted

└─cr-auto-1 LVM2_member SDwntq-ohW4-ZpjL-wclp-CeDG-1f8p-Tp5ltx NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT Takes a long time (several minutes) while the device is working, and after that lsblk shows the mount point. Now the device notifier says “Acessing …”, but after some time, again tells “You are not authorized to mount this device”.Ĭommand lsblk shows at this point /dev/sdc as type “disk” without a mount point. If I plug it into a USB slot, the device notifier pups up, OK telling me that I am not authorized to mount.

Actually, I want to read it on one of my openSuSE systems. I have a TEAC USB floppy-disk drive, and I have a test disk that I can read with a floppy disk drive included in a Windows computer. I need to track down some documentation.I need to read some legacy floppy disks (3,5') which have been written a long time ago by Windows systems. I am quite sure this is becoming BIOS dependant, but I was thinking that the order listed in the BIOS could correspond to the value I move into %dl. In my particular bios I can change the drive order, which would include a USB drive. Now I have read that moving 0x80 into %dl will select the first HDD in the BIOS.

Now I see how the INT 13H function has been used with the floppy device, but I guess my question is, how will communicating with the USB drive differ?įor example, here is a snippet of the floppy code (GNU assembler): My goal is to modify the program so that it uses my USB flash drive. I have recently been studying some bootstrap code which was intended for use with a floppy drive.

Zip drive keeps telling me that the floppy disk needs to be formatted