[Drive A] "Path" = "/mnt/floppy" "Type" = "floppy" "Label" = "Floppy" "Serial" = "87654321" "Device" = "/dev/fd0" I'm not sure whether /mnt/floppy should be mounted or not when trying to do this. I tried it both ways and got the same error message from rdisk.exe: "Repair Disk Utlity is unable to get configuration information for the floppy drive" and this spew of stuff in the controlling xterm: fixme:ntdll:RtlDosPathNameToNtPathName_U (L"A:\\",0x406160ac,00000000,00000000) fixme:ntdll:NtOpenFile (0x406160f0,0x00100003,0x406151cc,0x406151e4,0x00000003,0x00000010) stub fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationFile (0x00000000,0x406151e4,0x406151ec,0x00000004,0x00000011),stub! fixme:ntdll:NtFsControlFile (0x00000000,0x00000000,(nil),(nil),0x406151e4,0x00090083,(nil),0x00000000,(nil),0x00000000): stub fixme:ntdll:NtDeviceIoControlFile (0x00000000,0x00000000,(nil),(nil),0x4061607c,0x00070000,(nil),0x00000000,0x4061604c,0x00000018): empty stub fixme:ntdll:NtDeviceIoControlFile (0x00000000,0x00000000,(nil),(nil),0x4061607c,0x00070c00,(nil),0x00000000,0x40615e4c,0x000001e0): empty stub I'm using Google Groups to post this and am pretty rusty on usenet, so if you could email me a copy of your response that would make my life easier! Thanks very much for your time, whoever reads this. --Jim Morash jmorash@mit.edu