Re: Mounting a floppy drive

[Orion the Hunter <orion@darwin.helios.nd.edu>]

Quoting Malcolm Miles <mgm@tardis.net>:
> Similar thing here:
> 
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
> mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
> FAT bread failed
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on dev/fd0, or too many mounted file syste,s
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
> 
> Any ideas?

Bad disk?  Does this disk work with DOS?  Have you tried another disk?
Try to run mdir (from the mtools package).  You don't need to mount
the floppy in order to read it with mdir.  Hope it helps,

Hermano Cabral