Re: Mounting a floppy drive (still)

["David B. Teague" <dbt@elentari.cs.wcu.edu>]

On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, J K wrote:

> Hi again!
> 
> A question:
> I finally mounted my floppy drive with 
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy,
> but when I try to ls a floppy, I get this error msg about 20 times: 
> "directory sread (sector 0xd) failed"
> What am I doing wrong? 

Your mount command worked on my machine. If you issued the command

	ls /floppy

that should have worked unless some sector in the dos directory is hosed. 
You could try issue the Linux command

	sum /dev/fd0

if you get errors you know the disk is not perfect. Then I'd replace it.

--David Teague dbt@elentari.cs.wcu.edu
Debian GNU/Linux Because reliability is where it is at!