Re: argh! linux and floppies

[Douglas Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 06:42:33PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> > /dev/fd0    /floppy    auto    user,noauto    0    0
> > Its the 'auto' that's the problem.  
> > Try mounting it manually to determine what types to put
> > here.
> 
> You mean like:
> 
> westk[@westk03]:/home/westk> sudo mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 mnt
> FAT: invalid media value (0xf6)
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev fd0.
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
>        missing codepage or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so
> 
> westk[@westk03]:/home/westk> dmesg | tail
> floppy0: data CRC error: track 3, head 0, sector 5, size 2
> end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 112
> FAT: invalid media value (0xf6)
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev fd0.

Could it be type msdos not vfat?  Does anyone know what media value 0xf6
is?

Does anyone know if Windows checks the CRC data?  If it doesn't perhaps
its not finding errors that Linux does.  

Doug.