Apparent floppy disk problem (fwd)
Hi
I have appended the original message.
Apparently I was not subscribed when I sent this the first time,
so did not see any responses. Please mail me directly if
you have a fix, there no need to post a second time.
I really am in a quandrary - that floppy drive looks ok, but fdformat
doesn't format a floppy so I cannot create a boot disk with the install
scripts.
dselect, when asked to update packages returns an error as well, which
I did not note in the original message.
HELP, Please!
David
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:49:06 -0500 (EST)
From: David B. Teague <teague@WCUVAX1.WCU.EDU>
Subject: Apparent floppy disk problem
Cc: TEAGUE <TEAGUE@WCUVAX1.WCU.EDU>
Hi
The problem exhibits itself when I attempt to create a boot floppy while
attempting to install Debian 1.1.8. The script attempts to format the
floppy disk and fails on verify - with any disk floppy I use, and I have
used about a dozen different disks, with essentially the same message:
Formatting floppy ....
verifying ...
end_request I/O error dev 02:00 sector 15
end_request I/O error sector 16
end_request I/O error sector 30
end_request I/O error sector 32
read - unknown error
I at first attributed this to a bad image from the CD, but I down loaded
the install disk images from the ftp site. Using an older slackware
installation, I used this to write the disks:
dd if=image of=/dev/fd0 bs=18
Where image is successively the special boot 1 (for all adaptec scsi),
root.bin base14-[123].bin.
My machine is a 486 dx2 66, 256 K cache, 16 MB RAM a 1542A SCSI
controller, and 4 scsi devices:
/dev/sda: MICROP Model: 1674-07MB1036510 Rev: AS0A scsi id 0
/dev/sdb SEAGATE Model: ST3655N Rev: 0190 scsi id 2
/dev/sdc FUJITSU Model: M1606S-512 Rev: 6234 scsi id 3
/dev/sdd SyQuest Model: EZ135S Rev: 1_12 scsi id 4
/dev/scd0 TEXEL Model: CD-ROM DM-XX24 K Rev: 1.09 scsi id 6
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom, 4 SCSI disks total.
And a single 1.44 MB floppy in /dev/fd0 that gives no problems with
an older Slackware Linux, and works fine with Norton utilities on the
floppies that I format using Norton's format program, or under Slackware
Linux.
I tried the fdformat from a shell spawned with a function key. It fails.
Help!
-David
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