Re: Strange dd error
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 02:30:13AM -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
> As of late I have been getting a strange dd error when trying to write
> stuff to my floppy drive. The command is
>
> dd if=memtest86.bin of=/dev/fd0
>
> and I get an output of
>
> dd: writing to `/dev/fd0': Input/output error
> 9+0 records in
> 8+0 records out
>
> I try using it on normal files and it seems to work just fine. I was
> wondering if this was something going wrong with my hardware, kernel, or
> dd. It has been happening over several kernels(and I no longer have the
> kernel that I last remember using this successfully on). I am currently
> running debian sid on 2.4.20-pre1-ac1. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Dud floppy disk itself? Maybe the drive could get dodgy with age,
too...
- Chris
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