=== zmoylan-1i is now known as zmoylan-pi [12:08] afternoon [12:08] o/ [12:09] I came across old college floppies and id like to get the data off them. [12:09] ooooh a challenge... [12:09] I have a usb floppy drive. [12:09] i'm thinking.... [12:09] ah then you're sorted? [12:09] not sure if the disks are good nor am i sure if the drive is good [12:10] ah [12:10] no work pc with a floppy drive? [12:10] it doesn't appear to work automagically [12:10] no pc left in house with floppy drive [12:11] i could probably rustle up a floppy drive but i have no motherboard it would talk to [12:12] any ideas on how i can check the drive? [12:12] should it just mount when a disk is inserted? [12:13] i haven't used a floppy drive with linux since about red hat 5.2 :-) [12:13] i would assume on ubuntu it would [12:14] grand [12:15] hope you are keeping well zmoylan-pi [12:15] may not be automagic on ubuntu... http://askubuntu.com/questions/168597/how-do-i-use-a-floppy-drive-in-ubuntu [12:16] getting by airurando, yourself? [12:18] not to bad here