Re: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
Kent West wrote:
Ioana Glitia wrote:
Yesterday evening I've upgraded to kernel 2.4 on the stable distro
(on my IBM Thinkpad 755C), using apt-get but now it seems like I
can't get Debian to read the floppies anymore...and this is somehow
bad :) cause it doesn't have a CD-ROM or a network card so I can't
install packages that I would need.
I keep getting this error when I try to mount a floppy:
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
It does that with every floppy, it's not just a bad floppy. Was there
something I needed to configure after doing apt-get install
kernel-image* ?
Perhaps you need to "modprobe floppy"?
Thank you for your help. I tried that, but I still get errors like
that, or like, right after I did the modprobe floppy, I got an error like
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 36
floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 38
floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation
and so on until 94 and then it said
attempt to access beyond end of device
02:00: rw=0, want=33, limit=4
attempt to access beyond end of device
02:00: rw=0, want=34, limit=4
so on until want=36 and then it said
/dev/fd0: Input/output error
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
Is there anything I could do?
Becky
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