Re: floppy woes
On Sat, 16 May 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> Lindsay Allen wrote:
> > I wrote:
> > >
> > > Question: is there a way to hard-reset the floppy drive and driver
> > > under linux, without rebooting?
> >
> > I just take the disk out.
>
> So do I, but it doesn't seem to convince the drive that he can start
> over again :(.
I had this happen to me once. It turned out one of the connectors on
the ribbon cable from the floppy drive to the motherboard was loose and
the "disk change" signal wasn't making it through.
Bob
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