Thanks all for your suggestions.
Well, I went with the HFV Explorer option since my old IOMega USB floppy doesn't seem to have drivers in Mint 17.1. Of course, it appears as though when I attempt to do anything but read from my floppy driver, HFVE doesn't recognize a disk existing in the thing so I'm going to dust off the ol' Intel P4 and use it's real floppy. Stay tuned.... :b&w: