[K12OSN] Floppy drives...

[39spruill <39spruill cua edu>]

Hi...I am the media technology librarian at the Rocky Mountain School of 
Expeditionary Learning in Denver...We started running K12LTSP this year, and 
so far it seems to be working pretty well for us.  Currently I am having 
problems with floppy drives and mtools.  Most of our students are using 
Windows at home, and when they try to save files being careful to save in 
Microsoft formats, things often work fine.  They'll take the disk home, and 
for many of them they are able to open it fine at home and then bring it back.
 They put the disk back in a terminal, save their files to the server and it 
may or may not work.  Typically, they can exchange things once or twice, and 
after that, Mtools gives them a message that a:permission is denied, and 
a:cannot initialize.  I have considered having kids use e-mail to transport 
files back and forth, and it seems as though this may be our most likely 
solution for now, but I am wondering how to fix this.  Given that for most 
kids it works fine the first time or two, I don't know what the problem is.  I 
thought for a while that it was just substandard floppy disks, and have been 
using scandisk to try and fix errors on disks, but that doesn't always seem to 
help.  Thanks for your help.  I have been watching the listserve all year, but 
have so far been quiet.  
Thanks...
Elizabeth Spruill

Elizabeth Spruill
94 S. Lincoln St.
Denver, CO  80209