Floppy - wrong fs type

[MoeNeigh]

I have been using my floppy on occasion. Everything has been working fine. Then I decided to format the floppy using mkfs. After I did this, I can no longer use it. I get this error message:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. In some cases useful info is found in syslog -- try dmesg | tail or so.

Any ideas how to get things back to normal with the floppy? If I format it again, should I use a different procedure?

Thanks for any ideas.

[MoeNeigh]

Re: Floppy - wrong fs type

OK, I reformatted the floppy on an old Win98 PC. Then mounted it again in Kubuntu. It's working fine again. Still, it would be nice to know the proper way to format the floppy in Kubuntu so that I don't get the wrong fs error.

[Rog131]

Re: Floppy - wrong fs type

I have been using kfloppy - floppy formatter for KDE

Kfloppy is a utility that provides a straightforward graphical means
to format 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks.

Cli (unmounted, fd0):

fdformat /dev/fd0

Formatting ... done
Verifying ... done

File system fat:

mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0

ext:

mkfs.ext3 /dev/fd0

[MoeNeigh]

Re: Floppy - wrong fs type

Nice utility, thank you. And thanks for the konsole commands.

[Teunis]

Re: Floppy - wrong fs type

The problem is possibly due to the fact that Floppies should be in FAT12 while other disks are using FAT16 or FAT32.