Re: Strange dd error
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 03:04:22AM -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
> 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?
Guess you could always dd an image to a floppy, then dd it back, and
compare md5sum with the original. Do this multiple times, and see how
it goes...
- Chris
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