Here's my stab in the dark. I don't think you're doing this, but it has been my experience that only one VM or host can access the floppy at a time. Are you sure that you don't have the floppy mounted (maybe automounted) on your host system or some VM? Eric On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 12:38:52PM -0600, Bill Layer wrote: > VMWare installed and running fine. Booting & installing VMs from the 1.44 > (A:) floppy drive, and all is well. Suddenly, VMWin95 won't read any floppy > disks.. says they are unformatted. Trying to format a disk gives a 'disk not > present, or drive door open' message. > > Restart the VM, now thw VM will not boot from a floppy - the drive lights & > spins, but no head activity, and 'Missing operating systrem." errors. Create > some new VMs, same problem, no floppy access at all. > > Linux mounts, reads and writes the drives just fine. The box will also boot > from the drive anytime. VMWare re-installed. Floppy, still totally useless. > Settings for the floppy device all look fine, and appear correct as the drive > does light and spin when you attempt to access it. > > I don't expect VMWare to give me support on an eval license, and there is not > a peep about this in the FAQS! > > H-E-L-P! > > -- > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > | .:Bill Layer:. | Viking Electronics,Inc. 1531 Industrial St | > | .:Sales Technician:. | Hudson, WI 54016 USA + 715.386.8861 x210 | > | b.layer at vikingelectronics.com | http://www.vikingelectronics.com | > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > "Telecom Solutions for the 21st Century" + Powered by Slackware Linux 7.1.0 > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >