$ udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdc -t vfatĮrror mounting /dev/sdc: GDBus.Error. As it is recognized by all OSes with no problem but just do not want to read floppies.Īlso udisks generates same error. There were some 2MB & more but the Floppy-drive normally comes with PCs supports 1.44 MB floppies. I’m starting to feel that it’s the actual drive problem. Floppy now is only one in majority normally called 3.5' drives 1.44MB but may be formatted to 1.66MB, sometime the MS installer came on this type of format. It will not fulfill my project (as I need a modern PC) but at last I will test if this drive works.ĮDIT: Knoppix 8.2 w/ 4.16.5 kernel gives me exact same errors. What if I test some very old Knoppix? Those days floppies were still around. Once at the prompt, place a diskette into the floppy disk drive and type format a. Insert a blank floppy disk into the disk drive. And I need USB as non of my computers (even servers) do not have floppy connection (it wasn’t ATA as I recall but still I only have SATA and SAS connectors). matting prepares the disk no information can be written to its surface. I read a lot here and there and most Linux programs do not support USB drives.

Floppy disk is not formatted