Re: Strange dd error

[Scott Henson <shenson2@sandm.hn.org>]

On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 02:35, Chris Kenrick wrote:
> 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...
> 

Does this with multiple floppies.  Oh, it also encounters read errors
when trying to read off a floppy and write an image. 

But I think it was the drive cause I pulled it out and replaced it with
an extra I had laying around.  Is there any way to test a floppy drive
and make sure it was the drive and not something else in the loop? 

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