
Note that these utilities do not work for USB floppy drives, because general documentation about the floppy driver. floppycontrol: configures the floppy driver fdrawcmd: sends raw commands to the floppy driver setfdprm: sets the current disk geometry

getfdprm: prints the current disk geometry (number of MAKEFLOPPIES: creates the floppy devices in /dev xdfcopy: formats, reads and writes OS/2's XDF disks fdmount: automatically mounts/unmounts disks when they are superformat: formats high capacity disks (up to 1992kįor high density disks or up to 3984k for extra density The package includes the following items: This package contains utilities for formatting extra capacityĭisks, automatic floppy disk mounting and unmounting, etc. You could also try installing fdutils package: $ apt-cache show fdutils Try adding your username in the floppy group: sudo adduser $USER floppy If you want to load the floppy module: sudo modprobe -v floppy If it returns "floppy" then you have the floppy module loaded and this answer does not solve your problem. Check if the floppy module is loaded: lsmod | grep -i floppy
