Floppy Disk Available Space and OS X

[beebarb]

I have recently bought an external USB floppy drive to access many of my old floppies.
There's a bit of a weird issue going on when trying to access the disks.

For some reason OS X is reporting the capacity like it should, saying the capacity is 1.5MB, but when it gets to reporting the available space, it starts getting weird.

Initially when I tried the drive, it said a disk had something like 178MB available.
Today, it's saying the disks I am using have about 4.0-4.5MB available.

For a few days OS X was accurately reporting the available space, but it's flipping out again.

Anyone know why this is happening, and/or how to get OS X consistently reporting the free space correctly?
All the disks are formatted using FAT12.

I'm in the process of getting what I need off the disks, reformatting and relabelling them so they can be re-purposed.

 

[Shirasaki]

Floppy disks. I still have quite a lot unused at home, although we no longer use it.

Talking about reporting available storage, OS X now cannot even figure out how much space local disk have and how much is occupied by apps/music etc. So I think there is no way to fix it. But maybe, there are terminal settings which could help you out somehow.

 

[dsemf]

I would try using the df command in a terminal window.

DS

 

[beebarb]

I recently tried Path Finder out of curiosity, and it seems to confirm that the erroneous available space reading is quite possibly a bug with the Finder.

When using Path Finder, the available space on my floppy disks is correctly reported.

 

[Fishrrman]

OP wrote:
"When using Path Finder, the available space on my floppy disks is correctly reported."

Then use PathFinder instead of the finder.
Problem solved.

 

[beebarb]

Then use PathFinder instead of the finder.
Problem solved.

No, the problem isn't solved just worked around.
A workaround isn't a solution.

Ideally I don't want to have to use anything else.
I should just be able to access the drive in any file manager and see the information correctly reported.

The Finder does not, so there is a problem.

 

[mag01]

>>> https://bugreport.apple.com
There's hardly much more to do.