[12:08] <airurando> afternoon
[12:08] <zmoylan-pi> o/
[12:09] <airurando> I came across old college floppies and id like to get the data off them.
[12:09] <zmoylan-pi> ooooh a challenge...
[12:09] <airurando> I have a usb floppy drive.
[12:09] <zmoylan-pi> i'm thinking....
[12:09] <zmoylan-pi> ah then you're sorted?
[12:09] <airurando> not sure if the disks are good nor am i sure if the drive is good
[12:10] <zmoylan-pi> ah
[12:10] <zmoylan-pi> no work pc with a floppy drive?
[12:10] <airurando> it doesn't appear to work automagically
[12:10] <airurando> no pc left in house with floppy drive
[12:11] <zmoylan-pi> i could probably rustle up a floppy drive but i have no motherboard it would talk to
[12:12] <airurando> any ideas on how i can check the drive?
[12:12] <airurando> should it just mount when a disk is inserted?
[12:13] <zmoylan-pi> i haven't used a floppy drive with linux since about red hat 5.2 :-)
[12:13] <zmoylan-pi> i would assume on ubuntu it would
[12:14] <airurando> grand
[12:15] <airurando> hope you are keeping well zmoylan-pi
[12:15] <zmoylan-pi> may not be automagic on ubuntu... http://askubuntu.com/questions/168597/how-do-i-use-a-floppy-drive-in-ubuntu
[12:16] <zmoylan-pi> getting by airurando, yourself?
[12:18] <airurando> not to bad here