Re: floppy in 2.4.17

From: Mr. James W. Laferriere (babydr@baby-dragons.com)
Date: Sat Feb 23 2002 - 10:59:37 EST


        Hello J.A. , Nice name . I have verified that the floppy drive
        under 2.4.18-pre3 is in the same shape . Hth , JimL

# fdformat /dev/fd0u1440 , Hmmm , Move little tab .
/dev/fd0u1440: Read-only file system
# fdformat /dev/fd0u1440 , Hmmm ......
/dev/fd0u1440: Read-only file system
# tar -ztvf /dev/fd0 , Hmmm , J.A.'s right .
(hang ..wait several minutes..)^C
tar (grandchild): Read error on /dev/fd0: Input/output error
tar (grandchild): At beginning of tape, quitting now
tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, J.A. Magallon wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I am getting problems with floppy drive in 2.4.17.
> All started with floppy not working in 18-rc4, went back to 17
> and still does not work. Just plain 2.4.17, no patching.
>
> mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0 just hangs forever.
>
> mkfs -v -t ext2 /dev/fd0 gives:
>
> mke2fs 1.26 (3-Feb-2002)
> mkfs.ext2: bad blocks count - /dev/fd0
>
> Hardware:
>
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv
>
> ???
>
> TIA
>
> --
> J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you...
> mailto:jamagallon@able.es
> Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586
> Linux werewolf 2.4.17 #2 SMP Sat Feb 23 15:08:17 CET 2002 i686

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