'man fd 4' or see here: https://linux.die.net/man/4/fd fdnh1200 1200K 80 15 2 8 fdnh1440 1440K 80 18 2 40 Change 'fdn' to 'fd0' or 'fd1' as needed and experiment with the sizes, as needed. I might try that at some point in time. I've started a new job, so I don't have as much time to dedicate to si...

It turns out that the problem was the Epson 800 drive. The two floppy drives share a single floppy connector, and apparently Puppy is unable to detect the 5 1/4 drive. In the documentation that I found for the drive, there was mention of a driver that was needed, and apparently, I didn't have. I ins...

It has 3 x 256 MB chips, so technically it has 768 MB of ram.

This is the latest and greatest, I presume it is slacko. I can look into older versions. Things like a working copy of Firefox are nice but not required for this machine. As I mentioned it's sole purpose is to archive floppies. Can Classic run on an Athalon 550, or does it need a something older?

I do not have the paper manual that came with the drive, but I was able to find it at: http://ftp.epson.com/desktop/SD800.TXT . I pulled the drive and checked the jumpers. They were set to the factory defaults. The description was a bit confusing and contradicting: Jumper Definitions Drive Select: S...

Both floppies are on the same ribbon cable. The motherboard only has one floppy controller. The drives are integrated as one unit (two drives in one 'bay'), and are 'new', purchased in the 90's but only unpackaged and used this week. The 5 1/4 floppies are labeled as being formatted MD-2HD, the 3 1/...

When I have both a 5 1/4 floppy and a 3 1/2 floppy loaded at the same time, Pmount shows two fd0 drives. The 'bar' of one of fd0s is grey, the same way that Pmount looks when it displays an empty 3 1/2 floppy drive. The other is sometimes red, but at other times is grey. The 3 1/2 floppy can not be ...

I only have one floppy on my desktop and /boot/grub/menu.lst looks good. When I boot with a 5 1/4 floppy in the drive, the computer does try and boot from it, so I know that the BIOS can access is. So, since the 5 1/4 drive is not automatically listed on the desktop and in /mnt, is there a way for m...

I have Puppy 5.6 running on an old Athalon 550 tower, with 750MB of ram. The main reason that I am running this machine is to archive the data from a collection of old floppy disks. I can read 3.5 floppy disks fine. However, I am not sure if puppy can see the 5 1/4 drive. /mnt only has one floppy, f...