Re: Trouble reading floppy on linux / winnt

["Anand Buddhdev" <arb anand org>]

> Hello,
>
> I'm a new Linux user who has just recently installed
> RedHat 7.2 and I've run into what I'm sure is a simle
> problem.  I'd like to transfer a small text file from
> my linux box to an NT box via floppy.  I've created
> the directory '/mnt/msdosfloppy' and mounted my floppy
> drive as follows:
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/msdosfloppy
>
> I then copy the text file and it seems to work.  A
> subsequent listing of the /mnt/msdosfloppy directory
> displays the copies file.  I then remove the disk and
> pop it into an NT box but it appears as though the
> file isn't there?  What am I doing wrong?  Thanks in
> advance!

Ouch. It sounds as if you are not unmounting the floppy disk in linux. After
you copy the file to the floppy, you *must* unmount it with the command
"unmount /mnt/msdosfloppy" to ensure that the linux system flushes out the
file's data to the disk, and removes the disk from its filesystem, at which
point it is safe to remove. If you remove it before unmounting, the file
data may not actually have been written out to disk, as linux may have
delayed the write in favour of processing other tasks.